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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mattingly? The closest he came was last year's loss in the wild card series against Seattle, which the Yankees really reached in spite...

Author: By Jason E. Kolman, | Title: Basic Chemistry | 9/18/1996 | See Source »

...gold rush and Brigham Young and George Armstrong Custer--to reach the man who historian Richard White contends is "the one true genius the 19th century West created." He is none other than William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody, the former Indian fighter and buffalo hunter whose touring "Wild West" show forever fixed the myth of the West for the rest of the world. Cody's show, which began touring in the 1880s, re-created Indian attacks on wagon trains and raids on settlers' villages, with Buffalo Bill always riding to the rescue. As a grand finale, the show even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: KEN BURNS: WHITE MEN BEHAVING BADLY | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...tight focus or cumulative force of The Civil War; with so much ground to cover, this wagon train can't linger too long in any one spot. And we miss at least some discussion of how the legendary figures of the West fit into the story. Wyatt Earp and Wild Bill Hickok are dismissed in a sentence; Jesse James and the O.K. Corral aren't mentioned at all. Viewers weaned on TV and movie westerns will be mildly disappointed. And Buffalo Bill would have been appalled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: KEN BURNS: WHITE MEN BEHAVING BADLY | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

What a shame it was for the comics of the first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: THE NEXT WORST THING | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

THEY'RE JUST WILD ABOUT HARRY (ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE BEHIND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN NOTEBOOK | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

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