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...WWII! The Good War. The war. The bigger, better sequel to the War to End All Wars. With a unified national will to defeat the Axis, and Broadway, Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley operating at full throttle, every G.I. could hit the beach with a song in his backpack. Terrific songs, many of them. They still sound swell today, and they even look good on the bandbox stage of Manhattan's Blue Angel Supper Club in a larkish but poignant revue called Swingtime Canteen, directed by Kenneth Elliott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE | 9/4/1995 | See Source »

Then there's the Citadel itself, a tin-pot, second-rate military academy whose unofficial motto is "2.0 and Go." It has few distinguished alumni among the third of its graduates who go into the military (most grads become kick-butt insurance agents and stockbrokers). While the Citadel might not have been a worthy target, Faulkner was nonetheless, as its first female, required to be Uberwoman-as fit as Arnold Schwarzenegger, as bald as Sinead O'Connor and as beautiful as Michelle Pfeiffer. Instead Faulkner was a little bit dumpy, a little bit plain and a little bit whiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LOUTS OF DISCIPLINE | 8/28/1995 | See Source »

...shook us out of bed and hustled us downstairs. We brought two rucksacks and a baby carriage; there had been no time to pack more. Two soldiers bundled us into the truck. It was already crowded with other refugees and their gear -- suitcases, sacks, boxes -- as well as two tin tubs filled with a white substance that we later discovered was powdered milk covering a pile of hand grenades. At the back were several barrels filled with rifle ammunition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLIGHT TO FREEDOM | 5/15/1995 | See Source »

...TOUCH AND LIVE, HATE AND DIE and so on, done in flashing neon--are laconic, all right, but Beckett and Wittgenstein they're not, though the co-curator, Robert Storr, tries stubbornly to argue otherwise. Such eminent names--and Alain Robbe-Grillet's too--function as votive tin cans hung on the tree of Nauman's reputation, enhancing the piety with which one is meant to approach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEING A NUISANCE | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

...beloved by generations of children for his mellifluous renditions of Frosty the Snowman and The Blue Tail Fly; in Anacortes, Washington. Among the best known of Ives' many stage and screen roles were his starring appearance as Big Daddy in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and his narration of the undying holiday TV special, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 24, 1995 | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

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