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Yesterday, Dave Fish earned his 100th career victory even though he was getting a suntan in Florida. The Harvard Men's squash team, which Fish has coached for 11 years, was in the darker confines of Hemenway Gym but still managed to dispose of Dartmouth...
Later on, there is a darker wonder: a remote broadcast making the entire nation privy to the anguish of the Phelps family, whose daughter is trapped in a well. The reporter on the spot, no less than his listeners, expects the incident to end happily. Everything always did on the radio, which was an even more efficient dream machine than the movies. But no. The child dies. The dismay in the announcer's voice is caused not only by an "unexpected human tragedy" but by the way reality has let down the medium...
There are darker currents, too, of a passive racism. The black soldiers are occasionally patronized and sentimentalized; they stand to the side while the white soldiers grab all the big emotions. And the Vietnamese are either pathetic victims or the invisible, inhuman enemy. In the scheme of Platoon (and not just Platoon) they do not matter. The nearly 1 million Vietnamese casualties are deemed trivial compared with America's loss of innocence, of allies, of geopolitical face. And the tragedy of Viet Nam is seen as this: not that they died, but that we debased ourselves by killing them...
...invitation of the Japanese chef Shizuo Tsuji, a friend of 35 years and the founder and president of a cooking school for professionals in Osaka, to come to Japan and write an introduction to his cookbook Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art. She took along her sister and recalls the darker side of being a woman in Japan. "I would work all day long in the school, thinking only of going out in the evening and how I would be able to get up off the floor after dinner. My sister and I were the only women, and the men hardly...
...come into his life. The sex here is very naked and bluntly erotic -- a few minutes of careless sex unmediated by commitment or guilt. For a while the movie seems like another study of love along what is left of the hippie margin. But no, it moves toward ever darker, more claustrophobic interiors as Betty realizes that the lackadaisical Zorg cannot absorb all of her energies. She discovers that he once wrote, and abandoned, a novel. She will type out the manuscript and get the masterpiece off to the publishers. When the rejections pile up, she focuses her hopes...