As Time Goes By | PARABOLA
Family watching television, 1958. Photograph by Evert F. Baumgardner. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Source: National Archives and Records Administration. A few years ago I had a conversation with a close friend of mine about the experience of watching older films on TV with my parents. I’d be sitting there, deeply involved with something by John Ford or Sam Peckinpah or King Vidor, and my father would make a comment about the color of the military uniforms being incorrect, or the fact that it looked like it was clearing up outside. These remarks were made in such a way that a response was ...
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