The Waltons
From 1972 to 1981, the Depression Era returned to America through the popular television series, The Waltons. For nearly a decade, American viewers embraced The Waltons into popular cultur...
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Critical Essay by Anne Roiphe
A bobwhite cry breaks the quiet of night among the firs and pines of the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia…. "Good night, Ma." "Good night, Jo...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
The plot [of "The Homecoming"] seems to be the problem. Just as one story line gets under way, another appears to sidetrack it.
At the cente...
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Critical Essay by John J. O'connor
The mode [of "The Waltons"] is almost brazenly sentimental.
The narrator is John-Boy, the oldest son, reminiscing from the present. As he pu...
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Critical Essay by Robert Berkvist
"The Waltons," CBS's gift to viewers who were hoping for one, just one, different show this season, seems strangely out of place until you reali...
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Critical Essay by Peggy Hudson
When I say that The Waltons perpetuates a myth, I am saying that the show is based on a certain concept of what life was like in the 1930's—and that there...
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Georgia O'Keeffe's most famous painting "Radiator Building — Night, New York" and 100 other works won't be going to Arkansas if the museum that represents the late artist's estate has its way...
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Ingrid
and
Isabella
Ingrid
Bergman
's place as a celluloid goddess was assured when she was cast as
Humphrey
Bogart
's lost love in ‘Casablanca’. Her daughter
Isabella
Rosselli...
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Wal-Mart gave investors something on Friday they haven't seen in some time: a reason to pour some money into its shares. The world's largest retailer, under pressure by investors to improve its sal...
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A national nonprofit charter school organization once featured on Oprah Winfrey's talk show said Tuesday it had raised $65 million toward a $100 million goal to greatly expand its presence in the H...
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Today is Monday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2007. There are 336 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 29, 1820, Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign t...
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A judge on Monday rejected an agreement to send a 1927 oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe from Fisk University to a New Mexico museum, saying the deal wasn't in the best interests of the state of Ten...
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A billion dollars just doesn't go as far as it used to. For the first time, it takes more than $1 billion to earn a spot on Forbes magazine's list of the 400 richest Americans. The minimum net wort...
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The idea of keeping up with the Joneses is so 1950s. And forget the Carnegies, the Rockefellers and the Vanderbilts. These days, we want to keep up with the Gateses and the Buffetts, the Allens and...
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Today is Tuesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of 2008. There are 337 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Jan. 29, 1820, Britain's King George III died at Windsor Castle, ending a reign ...
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For a cartoon comedy dependent on how much ruination one homely yellow family can cause, there's an awful lot of drama behind "The Simpsons."Fans gripe that the animated show is nowhere near as fun...
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