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...this really the case? Were the intentions of Diary’s detractors really so sinister? I don’t believe so. The problem, as I see it, lies in the critical establishment’s failure to consider the film in its appropriate cultural context. Diary connects with its target audience on a variety of levels—social, spiritual, and aesthetic—often inaccessible to the viewer approaching the film tabula rasa...
Perry’s film is very aware of its location at the margins of popular culture, and its form and content reflect its “outsideness.” Perhaps future critics will venture beyond themselves and engage the film in its indigenous context...
...this context, we can revel in the downfall of favorites. Improbable upsets are what make the upcoming weekend the greatest four days of the year...
...perhaps sobering. Howard Stringer read history at Oxford, and now he is making it as the latest in a short list of Westerners to be installed as chief executive of a Japanese corporation. Doubtless, Stringer is aware that the significance of his promotion extends beyond Sony to the larger context of the convulsive changes that are transforming the landscape of Japanese society...
...Feith’s Speech Draws Hostile Reaction at IOP” (News, Mar. 4) you quote some words from my speech the previous day out of context and thus create an impression that is the opposite of the speech’s main point. I did not argue that we should change the way we live in order to fight the war on terror. On the contrary, as I said in my speech, “The President has declared that our war aim is to defeat terrorism as a threat to our way of life as a free...