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...Whether any modern children would be tempted to believe the parables served up on FKB is debatable in an age when kids are bred on cynicism. But back then, to me, growing up in a nice middle-class clan with a passing resemblance to the Andersons, the show had the ring of familiarity, if not of gospel truth. Though I didn?t always follow the precepts peddled by Jim and Margaret, I was raised on them. It wouldn?t be a stretch to say that FKB was the documentary of my 1950s - the way the '70s PBS series An American...
...consumer end of the food chain, emerging markets are seeing the spread of new self-service stores, including supermarkets, hypermarkets and discount and club stores, as well as chain convenience stores. Through highly efficient procurement and distribution systems, modern chain stores have made significant inroads into traditional markets by offering greater variety, lower prices, better quality and more convenience to populations that are increasingly urbanized and time-stretched. By purchasing fresh fruits and vegetables directly from farmers, supermarkets have also been influential in reorganizing agriculture away from small family holdings toward larger, better organized and more mechanized farms capable...
...colonial gaze behind an archival photo is wittily subverted by digital manipulation, to the late Rover Thomas' powerful Paruku (Lake Gregory), 1991, which draws the eye down Bridgestone's central corridor with the cosmic pull of a black hole. In a salon-style gallery designed for the appreciation of modern masters, the aesthetic relationship between Aboriginal painting and 20th century abstraction has never seemed closer. Though as Thomas, the former stockman from Turkey Creek, reportedly said of Rothko, "Who's that bugger that paints like...
...show whenever he sang or played his sheng—a mouth organ made of a ring of bamboo pipes, looking, as one audience member said, like “an organ and a church steeple put together.” The rehearsal ended with a composition by the modern Chinese musician Zhou Long, set to some Chinese poems about drinking too much. Here, the HRO joined Ma and his string quartet in an intricate and difficult piece. According to Ma, the final eight chords sounded like “drunk men falling down.” Though the mood...
...welcoming immigrants and the next week saying there are too many. It's a strong theme in American life to be ambivalent about immigration because there are benefits that we see and there have always been costs paid by the locals. What role has the media played? Immigration in modern America started to reach mass numbers in the 1960s and has been growing ever since, so we've had four decades really coping with immigration. I would say the media tried to ignore it for the first two decades and paid a little attention in the third decade...