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Article: Our shifting cultural landscape Choices in books, movies and Web sites show Americans balancing a need to know and a desire to move on.(Suburban Living)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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Byline: Hilary Shenfeld Daily Herald Staff Writer
The week of Sept. 3 was a pretty ordinary one.
The following week, of course, changed the way many of us look at the world. After Sept. 11, the day terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, people just didn't care about the same things anymore.
The information we sought on the Web, the books we started to read and, to a lesser extent, the movies we wanted to watch, all reflected that difference.
Despite the still-hourly updates on the latest anthrax scare or most recent bombings on Afghanistan, we've now had time to absorb the horror and even allow room in our minds ...