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2000
DECEMBER
December 27, 2000
In
Memoriam: Jason Robards
An encore presentation of Jim Lehrer's 1984 conversation
with actor Jason Robards, who died on December 26, 2000.
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December 26, 2000
Conversation:
Evan Thomas
Margaret Warner speaks with the author of a new book about Robert
F. Kennedy. |
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December 25, 2000
Behind
the Glitter
On Christmas, essayist Anne Taylor Fleming offers some holiday
thoughts about prosperity. |
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December 21, 2000
Intentional
Communities
Jim Fisher of the Kansas City Star reflects on intentional communities. |
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December 14, 2000
Post-Election
Poem
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky shares a post-election poem.
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December 5, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
After a video of Gwendolyn Brooks reading her poem "We
Real Cool," a Boston art student reads it as part of former Poet Laureate
Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project.
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NOVEMBER
November 29, 2000
Reflections
In Black
A new book sparks Clarence Page of The Chicago Tribune to contemplate
how America is seen by black photographers.
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November 7, 2000
Election
Day Poem
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads a poem for Election Day.
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OCTOBER
October 26, 2000
Conversation:
Stanley Kunitz
U.S. Poet Laureate Stanley Kunitz speaks with Elizabeth Farnsworth.
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October 25, 2000
Going
It Alone
Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers women on their own. |
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October 25, 2000
Conversation:
Laughter
Ray Suarez talks to comedian Carl Reiner about his career and his
recent award. |
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October 16, 2000
Avoiding
Politics
With the election at full boil, Roger Rosenblatt has some advice
for the nonpolitical. |
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October 13, 2000
The
Great White Hope
Ray Suarez reports on a new staging of Howard Sackler's
play "The Great White Hope."
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October 11, 2000
Favorite Poem Project
A reading of a poem by Stanley Kunitz, who Thursday officially becomes America's new poet laureate. |
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October 9, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Another in a series of poems read by Americans.
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October 2, 2000
Memory
Madness
Essayist Roger Rosenblatt considers the power of memory. |
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SEPTEMBER
September 27, 2000
Confession
Essayist Richard Rodriguez of Pacific News Service considers the act of confession.
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September 25, 2000
Olympic
Poem
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads a poem in honor of the Olympics.
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September 20, 2000
Size
Matters
With the mega-rich on a new buying binge, essayist Roger Rosenblatt
ponders big spenders and what they buy.
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September 14, 2000
Eternal
Flame
Essayist Richard Rodriguez considers the meaning of the Olympic Games. |
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September 13, 2000
Update:
Targeting Children
Kwame Holman reports on the Senate hearings on whether
the entertainment industry markets violent content to children.
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September 11, 2000
Tuning
In
Paul Solman of WGBH, Boston, investigates how children can be taught
to love music.
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September 11, 2000
Targeting
Children
FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky talks about the marketing of violent
entertainment to children.
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September 8, 2000
Curtain
Call
The lights go down on "Cats." Elizabeth Farnsworth discusses
the end of a Broadway musical era with Clive Barnes, theater critic for The
New York Post.
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September 6, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Robert Pinsky's favorite poem project continues, with a reading
by Stanley Kunitz, the new poet laureate of the United States.
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September 5, 2000
Angel
Island
Spencer Michels reports on making art out of the history of Angel
Island.
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September 4, 2000
Labor
Day
Against his own will, Roger Rosenblatt pens a Labor Day essay.
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September 1, 2000
Labor
Day Poem
Former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky shares a poem in honor of Labor
Day.
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AUGUST
August 31, 2000
Remembering
Paris
Through a new exhibit of Eugene Atget's photographs, essayist Anne
Taylor Fleming takes another look at Paris.
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August 30, 2000
Chardin's
World
Paul Solman of WGBH, Boston, examines the works of the 18th century
French painter.
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August 28, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Paul Connah reads "At Melville's Tomb" by Hart Crane.
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August 22, 2000
Favorite Poem Project
A continuing series from former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, asking Americans to read their favorite poems. The reading is by former New Yorker editor William Maxwell. |
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August 21, 2000
Writers
to the Sea
Roger Rosenblatt considers the connection between writing and
the sea.
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August 15, 2000
The
Hollywood Connection
Will Joe Lieberman's battle over Hollywood's racier
material cause a drop in donations for Democrats from those in the entertainment
industry?
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August 4, 2000
Not
an Average Library
Ray Suarez takes a close look at the Library of Congress,
America's oldest and largest collection of books and documents.
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JULY
July 28, 2000
Following
the Script
In the wake of the political convention, essayist Richard Rodriguez
mulls the state of American political style. |
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July 21, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Lyn Aye, an anesthesiologist from San Jose, CA reads his translation
of "Way of the Water Hyacinth" by Zawgee.
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July 21, 2000
A
Poem for Peace
Robert Pinsky, Poet Laureate of the United States, recites
a poem dedicated to the process of peace.
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July 14, 2000
Violent
Strain?
Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming on violence in America. |
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July 13, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Mary McWhorter, an accounting manager from Stockton, CA reads
Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen.
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July 11, 2000
A
Joyful Noise
Essayist Jim Fisher of the Kansas City Star considers the lessons
of a violin lesson.
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July 10, 2000
Modern
Maestro
A conversation with Composer John Adams, America's most-performed
living composer, whose works include Shaker Loops and Nixon in China.
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July 10, 2000
Publishing
Wizardry
The magic of J. K. Rowling. A discussion of the Harry Potter books.
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July 5, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Olivia Milward, a retired teacher from San Francisco, reads
The Holy Longing by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
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July 4, 2000
Pursuit
of Happiness
A recent New York Times Magazine article sparks essayist Roger
Rosenblatt to offer his perspective on what makes Americans happy.
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July 4, 2000
An
American Life
Ray Suarez reports on the life and work of artist Norman Rockwell
with a visit to the exhibit "Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American
People."
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July 3, 2000
Celebration
Essayist Richard Rodriguez of the Pacific News Service considers some recent
celebrations that turned wild.
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JUNE
June 30, 2000
A
Feast for the Eyes
A 50-year retrospective of Wayne Thiebaud's paintings
is on display in San Francisco. Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with Thiebaud about
his life and career.
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June 28, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Daniel McCall, a retired anthropologist from Boston, Massachusetts,
reads Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare.
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June 27, 2000
Theological
Curry
The mixing of new and diverse races in the American stew leads essayist
Richard Rodriguez of the Pacific News Service to ponder our multicultural future.
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June 22, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
A fifth grade student from Massachusetts, reads The Sloth by
Theodore Roethke.
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June 20, 2000
Troubled
Teens
Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers America's troubled adolescents.
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June 16, 2000
A
Father's Day Poem
Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads William Carlos Williams'
poem Danse Russe to honor our fathers.
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June 14, 2000
The
Sound of E-Music
The Internet site Napster.com has created a copyright controversy
by allowing users to download commercial recordings songs free of charge. Correspondent
Spencer Michels has the story.
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June 14, 2000
Remembering
George Segal
Sculptor George Segal died Friday. A tribute to his work with
gallery owner Carroll Janis, who represented Segal for 35 years, and Marla Prather,
curator of postwar art at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
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June 13, 2000
Remembering Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence, one of the century's great American painters died last Friday. Excerpts from a 1995 NewsHour interview are rebroadcast in memory of the artist. |
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June 8, 2000
Cockpit Drama
Correspondent Tom Bearden examines an off-Broadway play based
on transcripts from cockpit voice recorders.
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June 6, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Nancy Nersessian, a science professor from Atlanta, Ga., reads
The Sentence by Anna Akhmatova.
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June 2, 2000
Blonde
Ambition
Joyce Carol Oates's new book "Blonde" prompts Anne Taylor Fleming
to revisit Marilyn Monroe.
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MAY
May 31, 2000
Favorite
Poem Project
Leah Ward Sears, Supreme Court Justice of Georgia, reads For
My People by Margaret Walker.
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May 29, 2000
Memorial
Days
Essayist Roger Rosenblatt has some thoughts on our Memorial Days.
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May 26, 2000
To
the Graduate
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky reads a poem to honor the graduate.
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May 22, 2000
In
Memoriam
We remember the lives and talent of three master artists: actor
Sir John Gielgud, writer Dame Barbara Cartland, and flutist Jean Pierre Rampaul.
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May 18, 2000
Hello, Mr. Chips
Roger Rosenblatt questions whether America can survive the birth of the online university. |
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May 17, 2000
The
Favorite Poem Project
Kiyoshi Houston, a student from Santa Monica, Calif.,
reads The Lower Leaves of the Trees, a tanka, an ancient Japanese poetry form.
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May 12, 2000
Mother's
Day
Poet laureate and NewsHour contributor Robert Pinsky has a poem for
Mother's Day.
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May 11, 2000
Capturing
the Flag
With lingering debates in Georgia and South Carolina, essayist
Clarence page of the Chicago Tribune examines the contentious issue of flying
the Confederate flag.
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May 9, 2000
Se
Habla Espanol
Essayist Richard Rodriguez of the Pacific News Service looks
at the way America speaks Spanish.
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May 8, 2000
The
Favorite Poem Project
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky continues his Favorite
Poem Project by celebrating baseball season with an ode to the national pastime,
Ernest L. Thayer's "Casey at the Bat" read by Lee Samuel, a young fan from Atlanta.
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May 2, 2000
Something
of Value
Roger Rosenblatt draws some lessons from a two-volume presentation
of African rites and rituals, called African Ceremonies, by photographers Carol
Beckwith and Angela Fisher.
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May 1, 2000
The
Favorite Poem Project
U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem Project
continues with a young marine reading William Butler Yeats poem, Politics.
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APRIL
April 26, 2000
People's
Art
Some thoughts about poetry month from essayist Roger Rosenblatt.
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April 26, 2000
Transcending
Jazz
Joshua Redman is one of the shining stars in jazz. He talks to Elizabeth
Farnsworth about the decision to become a musician and the demands, joys and
community of jazz.
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April 25, 2000
The
Favorite Poem Project
Vietnam veteran Michael Lythgoe reads his favorite
poem, as a tribute to the 25th anniversary of U.S. troops withdrawing from Saigon
to end the war.
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April 25, 2000
Honore
Daumier Exhibit
Art correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH explores the work
of a nineteenth century artist with a 21st century bite, Honore Daumier.
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April 19, 2000
Conversation
with C.K.Williams
The winner of this year's Pulitzer prize for poetry, C.K.Williams,
talks about his book of poems, "Repair."
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April 18, 2000
Conversation
with Lewis Spratlan
The winner of this year's Pulitzer prize for music,
Lewis Spratlan, talks about his work: Life Is a Dream, Opera in Three
Acts: Act II, Concert Version.
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April 17, 2000
The
Favorite Poem Project
Another poem from Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky's project
of asking Americans to read their favorite poem. Pov Chin, a Stockton, California
student whose family immigrated to the U.S. from Cambodia, reads a poem by Langston
Hughes.
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April 13, 2000
Conversation
with Donald Margulies
A conversation with the winner of this year's Pulitzer
prize for drama, Donald Margulies, author of "Dinner with Friends."
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April 12, 2000
A
Conversation with Jhumpa Lahiri
A conversation with the winner of this year's
Pulitzer prize for best fiction writing, Jhumpa Lahiri, author of "Interpreter
of Maladies."
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April 11, 2000
Showcasing
Shostakovich
Senior producer Jeffrey Brown reports on composer Dimitri Shostakovich.
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April 10, 2000
The
Favorite Poem Project
Newshour contributor and Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
has asked Americans to recite their own favorite poems. A number of these were
put on tape and we will be running them occasionally.
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April 7, 2000
Garden
of Angles
Amidst the movies, books and celebrity news about having children,
essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers the abandoned babies in America.
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April 6, 2000
The
Hungry Eye
Walker Evans on the art of creating with a camera.
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April 6, 2000
Digital Magic
A host of filmmakers are using the new technology to produce
new films and documentaries that would never have been made otherwise. Spencer
Michels examines the new world of digital film-making.
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April 3, 2000
America's
Music
Essayist Richard Rodriguez of the Pacific News Service considers
the American Musical Theater and composer Stephen Sondheim.
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MARCH
March 31, 2000
Time
for Reflection
Essayist Richard Rodriguez of the Pacific News Service reflects
on reflection.
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March 30, 2000
A
Conversation on Kurt Weill
Composer Kurt Weill was born 100 years ago this
year. Senior correspondent Gwen Ifill looks at his importance over modern music.
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March 28, 2000
The
new "Beowulf"
Senior correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth interviews
author Seamus Heaney about his book, "Beowolf."
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March 27, 2000
On
Basketball
Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinksy offers thoughts
on March Madness.
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March 27, 2000
A
Rewarded Life
And the winner is... Roger Rosenblatt for his essay on why
we watch the Academy Awards.
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March 27, 2000
Off-beat
Winners
Kenneth Turan, a movie critic for The Los Angeles Times, and Toby
Miller, a professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University,
report on the Oscar Awards presented last night and an atypical winner, "American
Beauty." |
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March 20, 2000
Tales
of the City
Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming talks of change in cities like New
York and Los Angeles. |
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March 17, 2000
Erin
go Bragh
Poet Laureate of the United States Robert Pinksy has some Saint
Patrick's Day greetings.
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March 16, 2000
Hoop
Dreams
Economics correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH - Boston reports on the
money that has become a part of the NCAA Championships with CBS television's
6 billion-dollar contract to televise the games for the next 11 years. |
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March 8, 2000
Cartoons
that Work
Please join essayist Roger Rosenblatt in laughing over 75 years
of cartoons in The New Yorker Magazine. |
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March 8, 2000
Remembering the Tennessee Waltz
We remember a man and his very famous song, country music star Frank "Peewee" King died Tuesday at age 86. He was best known for co-writing "Tennessee Waltz," which became a number one hit in 1950, when Patti Page recorded it. Here's Patti Page 48 years later, 1998, singing "Tennessee Waltz" on a PBS broadcast. |
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March 3, 2000
Short
Order Love
After some thought, essayist Roger Rosenblatt asks who, in fact,
really does want to marry a multi-millionaire?
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FEBRUARY
February 22, 2000
I
Am a Camera
Essayist Richard Rodriguez talks about photographer William
Gedney. |
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February 18, 2000
From
the Mouths of Babes
King- and Newbury Award-winning author Chris Curtis
talks about his book "Bud, not Buddy," which is told in the voice of a young boy.
Curtis also talks about his personal story of change from auto worker to author. |
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February 17, 2000
Confronting
the Past
Essayist Roger Rosenblatt considers a collection of photographs of
lynchings in America. |
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February 14, 2000
A
Valentine's Day Poem
The NewsHour's regular contributor and Poet Laureate
Robert Pinsky offers a literary valentine.
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February 11, 2000
An
Honest Diplomat
The death of John Paton Davies sparks Roger Rosenblatt to
contemplate the state of America's diplomacy and the role Davies played in shaping
our attitudes towards China.
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February 8, 2000
Eye of the Tiger
John Feinstein, commentator and author of "The Majors," talks about the significance of Tiger Woods' remarkable victory Monday and the winning streak he has been enjoying. |
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February 4, 2000
We
Are the World
Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers the world America lives
in.
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JANUARY
January 31, 2000
Conversation:
Architect Ricardo Legorreta
Senior correspondent Ray Suarez talks with Mexican
architect Ricardo Legorreta, who last week was awarded the prestigious AIA Gold
Medal, given by the American Instiutute of Architects.
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January 25, 2000
Small Collections
Correspondent Paul Solman talks about an unusual collector who recently took over a remarkable collection. Lawrence M. Small became the 11th secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Monday in a brief ceremony. |
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January 21, 2000
A
Conversation with John Irving
Senior Correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth
talks to novelist John Irving about his many novels that have been brought to
life on the big screen.
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January 19, 2000
Is
That Our Final Answer?
With the blockbuster ratings success of ABC's "Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire?", the quiz show has made a strong primetime comeback.
Will the trend continue?
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January 17, 2000
Reflecting
on a King
Poet Laureate and NewsHour contributor Robert Pinsky reads a poem
in honor of the fallen civil rights leader.
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January 11, 2000
Little
Things Mean a Lot
Essayist Roger Rosenblatt pays some attention to the little
things. |
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January 7, 2000
Lifestyle
Fantasia
Essayist Anne Taylor Fleming considers the way we live-- or think
we want to live. |
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January 6, 2000
A
New Look at "Gatsby"
Correspondent Paul Solman of WGBH-Boston
reports on the opera update of The Great Gatsby.
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January 3, 2000
So
Long, Charlie Brown
Two cartoonist friends of Charles Schulz, Wiley Miller,
creator of the syndicated comic strip "Non Sequitur;" and Jan Eliot,
creator of "Stone Soup," are joined by Robert Thompson, director of
the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University to discuss
the retirement of the "Peanuts" comic strip and the impact it has
enjoyed. |
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