Word: atomically
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...Pablo Casals recording albums with jazz singers or Texas fiddlers or Argentine tango musicians as Ma has done. Or either cellist initiating, as Ma has, an ambitious series of six hour-long films inspired by Bach's six Suites for Unaccompanied Cello, involving collaborators as diverse as movie director Atom Egoyan, modern-dance choreographer Mark Morris, ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean and landscape architect Julie Moir Messervy. The films, to be shown on PBS starting in early April (following last month's release on CD of Ma's new recordings of the suites on Sony Classical), are only...
SHOULD WINCameron's a pro and deserved one of these for Aliens. But this year, my vote's for Atom Egoyan, who communicated in The Sweet Hereafter an entire town's experience of a single event, exerting a rigorous, wide-ranging psychological acuity for which Cameron didn't even...
...epic voice, it expressed, at its best, a disciplined, moral understanding of history, an adult's steady gaze. In a brief introduction to the Victory section in the issue of Aug. 20, 1945, for example, TIME, in contemplating Hiroshima and Nagasaki, said this: "With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age. The race had been won; the weapon had been used by those on whom civilization could best hope to depend; but the demonstration of power against living creatures created a bottomless wound in the living conscience...
With the controlled splitting of the atom, humanity, already profoundly perplexed and disunified, was brought inescapably into a new age in which all thoughts and things were split--and far from controlled. As most men realized, the first atomic bomb was a merely pregnant threat, a merely infinitesimal promise...
...classic example came the week that World War II ended. TIME's cover stories, led by the writing of the great James Agee (excerpted earlier in this issue), focused on the dropping of the atom bomb. Later in that issue, in a new section called Atomic Age, TIME wrestled with the historic and moral implications of what passed for progress: Pain and a price attended progress. The last great convulsion brought steam and electricity, and with them an age of confusion and mounting war. A dim folk memory had preserved the story of a greater advance: "the winged hound...