Word: holocaust
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Seeking to underscore the dangers posed by the Soviet Union, Conant brought the prospect of a nuclear holocaust closer to home...
...Jean-Pierre Dardennes' The Son, a touching drama about a troubled teenager and the carpenter whose son he killed. But after all the politico-ethnic tsimmes and tsouris, the Jury (headed by U.S. director David Lynch) gave its top award, the Palme d'Or, to Roman Polanski's Holocaust saga The Pianist, an epic adaptation of the 1946 memoir by Jewish musician and Warsaw Ghetto survivor Wladyslaw Szpilman. Cannes this year was good for the Jews, and not bad for world cinema. It is always dangerous to find political significance in movies. Films are not news bulletins; they are dreams...
...United States Holocaust Museum honors ordinary people by beckoning other ordinary people to walk among their artifacts. In Oklahoma City, the memorial to the bombing of the federal office building features translucent chairs arranged in rows where the victims had been sitting at their desks, to make the point that the people killed were everyone's co-workers...
...screen superheroes in its own image, why not just replace them with new ones? Partly because comic books aren't supplying them. After Marvel deconstructed the superhero, the comics' top talents started creating more personal, nonsuperheroic work, from R. Crumb's counterculture Zap Comics to Art Spiegelman's Holocaust story Maus to the haunting graphic novels of Chris Ware and Daniel Clowes...
...SPIEGELMAN'S "MAUS," DEPICTING HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS, WILL GO ON TO WIN A PULITZER. FRANK MILLER'S "THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS" AND ALAN MOORE'S "THE WATCHMEN" REDEFINE SUPERHEROES. ALL THREE RECEIVE MAINSTREAM ATTENTION, AND COMICS BEGIN TO ENJOY SOME RESPECTABILITY...