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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations.
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.
Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that’s been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure – after ‘Bad Girls,’ nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with ‘Off The Wall.’
Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
It’s incredible to have been part of fashion history – my whole career has been one big highlight.
Rupert Murdoch is probably the most successful media proprietor and operator in history.
Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first – forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.