Stone to talk about the role of elderly people in our society. Welcome to our show, Prof. Stone. M: To begin with, I'd like to tell a story from my own life. Several years ago, when my grandparents were well into their 80s, they were no longer able to care for themselves very w...
The film had a lot else going for it; a motivated Capra, a great script that would play well with small town America, and a good ensemble of supporting talent. The story concerns a spoiled young heiress (Colbert) trying to escape the control of her father (nicely played by Walter Connell...
U2 built on its momentum by reuniting with the same producers for what would prove to be their first genuine blockbuster. Inspired by both the physical and cultural deserts of America,1987'sThe Joshua Treeproduced two Hot 100 number ones ("With or Without You," "I Still Haven't Found What...
In the sense of "excellent, wonderful" great is attested from 1848. Great White Way "Broadway in New York City" is from 1901, in reference to brilliant street illumination. The Great Lakes of North America so called by 1726, perhaps 1690s. Great Spirit "high deity of the North American ...
John Carpenter's camp '80s masterpiece They Live offers a prescient vision of a fractured America, in which the media and wealthy collude to manipulate the masses into obeying. Their message is articulated mostly through advertising and consumer capitalism. As we learn, the rea...
and started working at a hospital in Kerrville, Texas. As soon as Jones started in Kerrville, children started dying in her care. In the 80s, Jones was convicted of killing a 15-month-old baby after she injected her with a powerful muscle relaxer. She didn't face another charge until ...
(Paper Girls) play Danny and Amy, stranger whose lives are up-ended when they get involved in a heated driving spat. Instead of settling their feud amicably, the duo raise the stakes in hilarious, shocking, and tension-fuelled fashion. What's born of their initial run-in is a seemingly ...
(Paper Girls) as Danny and Amy, two strangers who clash during a road rage incident. Rather than settle their feud amicably, the duo crank up the stakes in hilarious, shocking, and tension-fuelled fashion – a dispute that threatens to spiral out of control, and inadvertently pulls their ...
That particular model was known as both the Honeywell Pentax S2 and H2 in North America, I believe. I really love that camera and I still have and use it occasionally. A few years ago, I got into the history of Pentax cameras from around that time (late 50s – very early 60s), and...
The history of black music in America can be framed as a kind of guerrilla warfare against traditional European harmony, a subtle battle waged as every generation upgrades the two towers of rhythm on the one hand and blues on the other. (It’s no accident that literal “Rhythm and Blues”...