George Orwell was dying when he wrote 1984 in the late 1940s on the desolate Isle of Jura in Scotland’s Inner Hebrides. Tuberculosis ravaged his body, and typing thousands of words a day only weakened ...
Mr. English is the author of, among other books, “The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War with Forbidden Literature.” I traced a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” to the library of the ...
William Smith is a freelance writer currently living in the Midwest with his wife and daughter, where he spends too much time watching movies and then writing about them. He doesn't read your hurtful ...
Apple's iconic "1984" commercial, which introduced the Macintosh computer to the world, aired 41 years ago today during Super Bowl XVIII. Directed by Ridley Scott, the advertisement was designed to ...
We should pause, 40 years later, and thank God that our nation kept this most consequential man in power. He was an aging incumbent president who had just been drubbed in the midterms by the opposing ...
PROVO, UTAH, IS a city of about 115,000, nestled into the rocks on the back side of the Rocky Mountains. It is the fourth-largest city in Utah, and it's made up primarily of members of the Church of ...
If you ask any adult ‘80s kid how they’d define their childhood, they likely wouldn’t list shoulder pads and fluorescent leg warmers. Instead, it would be key cultural moments. In 1984 we couldn’t ...
From the February 1984 issue of Car and Driver. Anything Volkswagen wants to do with its GTI hardware is fine by us. We love the lit­tle blitzkrieg Bunny's heart of fire and nerves of steel. Now we've ...
This time 40 years ago, Cyndi Lauper, Madonna and other big pop stars of the decade turned out for the inaugural VMAs AP Photo/G Paul Burnett Forty years ago, MTV launched what would become a pop ...
Theatre Royal Bath has announced casting for the new adaptation of George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984, touring from next month. 1984 was originally published in 1949 and has been described as “one ...
In, 1984, Los Angeles played host to the Olympic Games for the second time since 1932. The Games were mired in several controversies, ranging from political boycotts to contentious events on the field ...