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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incoherence, his strangeness. He kept minutely detailed account books, for example--he was an obsessive record keeper who made daily notes on everything from barometric readings to the progress of 29 varieties of vegetables at Monticello--yet he somehow lost track of his debts and died bankrupt. The historian Paul Johnson has catalogued a few of the inconsistencies: Jefferson was an elitist who complained bitterly of elites; a humorless man whose favorite books were Don Quixote and Tristram Shandy; a soft-spoken intellectual sometimes given to violent, inflammatory language ("The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 18th Century: Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...Paul Gray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 19th Century: Thomas Edison (1847-1931) | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...plot, no set, no Look-Ma-I'm-a-swan costumes--just a stageful of virtuoso dancers who hurtle through angular steps and abstract poses that evoke a limitless universe of emotions. RUNNERS-UP Esplanade by Paul Taylor; Jardin aux Lilas by Antony Tudor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

Cartier-Bresson demonstrated the strange magic in moments in which nothing much happens but all sorts of things are revealed. RUNNERS-UP Identifying the Dead, Russian Front by Dmitri Baltermants; Wall Street by Paul Strand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Of The Century | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

...informed about services. They reportedly couldn?t get nursing care over the holidays and had to sleep in shifts to care for their only child. "My sense is that what she and her husband did was the product of a lot of stress," said University of Pittsburgh law professor Paul O?Hanlon, chairman of the disabilities council. "She had spent years fighting to keep Steven at home but felt the system wasn't really backing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Nightmare | 12/31/1999 | See Source »

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