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...have to put that in context. If that proposition had been accepted during the war generally, the Allies would not have bombed Germany, and we would not have made earlier strikes against Japan. Remember, at least 35,000 were killed in one night in Dresden. Our fire bombing of Tokyo [in March 1945] killed 83,000 in a single night. They all were deliberate bombings of civilian areas. MacArthur, you see, was a soldier. He believed in using force only against military targets, and that is why the nuclear thing turned him off, which I think speaks well...
Applying these ideas to the context of the entertainment industry, Harper and Mitchell then discussed the current state of African Americans in film. Mitchell said “Every time a black movie is released, it is viewed as a fluky proposition...
...follows the cancer treatment of the ironically named Dr. Vivian Bearing, a professor of 17th century literature specializing in the Holy Sonnets of John Donne. Dying of ovarian cancer, Bearing (Heather Boas) distances herself from the horrific eight months of futile chemotherapy by analyzing her disease in the context of Donne’s paradoxical attitudes toward death...
Ballad in fact echoes this family connection, though only in the sense of a girl meeting her possible “partner” in the house of her father. Unfortunately, the context and result of the situation is a bit less cheery than that of Day-Lewis and Miller. In the film, Jack’s (Day-Lewis) 16-year-old daughter Rose (Camille Belle, Jurassic Park), sees her world fall to pieces in a flash...
...emotional high points of the album come through the recorded voices, which taken out of context, almost always become strangely profound. But this leads to the feeling that the songs are merely being overheard, that they are reporting something rather than making any statements—literally so in the case of “Venice,” a jokey play-by-play of an artist painting what seems to be an abstract crucifixion scene (complete with Italian voices and crowd noises...