[lbo-talk] That's the way it was?

[Carl Remick]

I was just reading the NY Times review of George Clooney's biopic tribute to 
Edward Murrow, "Good Night, and Good Luck," which features this evocative 
lead:  "Shot in a black-and-white palette of cigarette smoke, hair tonic, 
dark suits and pale button-down shirts, 'Good Night, and Good Luck' plunges 
into a half-forgotten world in which television was new, the cold war was at 
its peak, and the Surgeon General's report on the dangers of tobacco was 
still a decade in the future."  
<http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/09/23/movies/23luck.html?8dpc>

Based on the accompanying photo (link below), I'd say Murrow's world is a 
lot more than "half-forgotten."  If you look carefully at the photo -- hell, 
if you just glance at it -- you'll note that the foreground desk in this 
supposedly 1950s newsroom displays an unmistakably 21st century bottle of 
water.  
<http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2005/09/23/arts/23luck.1.ready.html>

I remember the fifties well.  Nobody drank water then.

Carl