Word: spans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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What's more enjoyable for you: C-SPAN or Fox News...
...SPAN. There's some hilariously awful right-wing stuff there if you wait long enough: speeches by Tom Coburn, Phyllis Schlafly, Brent Bozell or some other entertaining wingnut. Fox News is something I have to watch; it's like homework...
...depth education and more seduction. After all, if people really wanted to dig into Washington's life, they could check out one of the fine new Washington biographies. Or they could just Google the guy. When it comes to history, Americans don't lack information; they lack the attention span to wade through the dusty collections of the old history museums. And that's where the new museums, using technology to make themselves savvier storytellers, can do their part to preserve the future of history...
...just really to get out there and show that there are alternate stories to what the mainstream media and the government will tell you," says Korey Rowe, 23, who produced the movie. "That 19 hijackers are going to completely bypass security and crash four commercial airliners in a span of two hours, with no interruption from the military forces, in the most guarded airspace in the United States and the world? That to me is a conspiracy theory...
...aspect of that awful day in Hawaii (though the following year John Ford did direct a documentary, December 7th, that got limited release in theaters). Dec. 7, 1941, was a day that would live in infamy, but not very much on film. Instead, over the 3-1/2-year span of the rest of the war, the dream factory mobilized to manufacture hundreds of movies about tough soldiers fighting the good fight abroad, and strong women bearing up at home...