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    Conversation: Susan Sontag

    Feb 02, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ... I'm moving forward. By the one after that, I will be caught up in the 21st century. And it takes place in Japan. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Well, Susan Sontag, congratulations again and thank you very much for being with us. SUSAN SONTAG: Thank you very much, Elizabeth Farnsworth. Thank you.

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    Food Scare

    Jan 26, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ... FARNSWORTH: I'm going to ask you to be brief because we're almost out of time. DR. PAUL BROWN: Those two reasons suffice. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: What needs to be watched out for now? What concerns you now?DR. PAUL BROWN: Well, I think what has been talked about-- that ...

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    Saving Orphan Films

    Jan 15, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And he actually did reenactments, didn't he? SCOTT SIMMON: He did, yeah. He admits it in the end title, but he probably did a few more than he admits. (Explosion ) ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Then there are very different kinds of films: "The Fall of the House of Usher ...

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    Tiananmen Papers

    Jan 11, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: The images from June 1989 seem to stop time. The world watched as China's army cleared out Tiananmen Square and the rest of Beijing, where hundred of thousands of students and others had been demonstrating for democratic reforms. An exact accounting of the dead hasn't been ...

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    Global Perspectives

    Jan 04, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Okay, Fareed Zakaria, let's hope we can hear you now. Tell us what you think about the status of the talks and what it means for the incoming Bush administration. FAREED ZAKARIA: Well, Elizabeth, I think the most interesting aspect of this negotiation has been the degree ...

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    Palestinian Refugees Right of Return

    Jan 02, 2001 05:00 AM EDT

    ... is no way back, ever. o.k. I say "you're welcome. Come here." where do I go? Vienna? I'm not wanted there. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Gaby Aldor said this issue is especially sensitive because Israelis in Jaffa and elsewhere worry a Palestinian Right of Return threatens Israel's existence ...

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    Titanic Fever

    Mar 23, 1998 05:00 AM EDT

    ... gap between them. And it's a particularly American fascination and an English fascination, so it becomes a great Anglo-American myth, I think. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: And, Mr. Butler, don't people wonder, what would I have done, and they want to know what happens, for example, to some of ...

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    Toni Morrison

    Mar 09, 1998 05:00 AM EDT

    ... don't know. I have no ideas now. I am about to fall into a very dark melancholy if something doesn't happen soon. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: You kind of wait until the ideas come to you.TONI MORRISON: Yes. ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: Well, thank you so much for being with us ...

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    Harlem Renaissance

    Mar 06, 1998 05:00 AM EDT

    A major exhibit on the Harlem Renaissance began its tour at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor. An art educator and curator discuss the art and entertainment scene that took place during the Harlem Renaissance.

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    Expanding Universe

    Feb 27, 1998 05:00 AM EDT

    Margaret Warner speaks with cosmologist Adam Riess about a new information report which states that the universe is expanding more rapidly now than in past years. By using exploding stars as a tool indicating distance, the discovery was made. The results and what they mean to us is discussed.