[American filmmakers ventured into Vietnam during the 1970s and 1980s with mixed results, but by the 1990s the baby boomers seemed increasingly eager to do an end run around their generation's war and all it represented, to embrace that of their fathers and grandfathers. Perhaps because, as an American veteran in the book] 'The Good War': An Oral History of World War II, ... It was the last time that most Americans thought they were innocent and good, without qualifications. |
And They All Sang: Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey. |
Aug. 9, the day of the operation, you know what day that was? Sixty years to the day the bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Amazing... the human race designs something like that, something that kills, and then the same human race designs things to save human life. |
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt. |
His ingenuity and his faith in the good taste of people are what made WFMT, ... He believed the public--and by that he meant ordinary people--deserved the best in broadcasting. |
His ingenuity and his faith in the good taste of people are what made WFMT. He believed the public ? and by that he meant ordinary people ? deserved the best in broadcasting. |
I don't recognize my own neighborhood. |
I originally said, `No,' ... I was feeling not so much scared as lost. There was a one in four chance that I wouldn't make it. |
I'm seeing something and I'm not standing silent about it. Humans are pushed out to make room for cars. |
If it weren't for the warm grates we would've had 80 frozen corpses down there during the big blizzard. |
Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits. |
Not because of its commercial value, but the name of Field's represents our past, ... The past is being erased. |
Not because of its commercial value, but the name of Field's represents our past. The past is being erased. |
One time, ... I was doing 'Studs Place,' my early TV show, and I'm supposed to be quitting cigars and I'm yearning for a smoke and I quote from the 'Odyssey.' I say, I am Ulysses passing the Isle of Circe. Meaning I got these temptations. Truck drivers called in and said they liked the classical reference. |
Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell. |