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When coats were stowed under seats, house lights extinguished, the audience was shown the exterior of a large New England home, a portico of deathly paleness only partially masking the building's sepulchral grey face. Here dwell the Mannons. With swift, sure strokes a long story is told...
...antiutopian tendencies of our time may merely have been a reaction against the extreme utopianism of the past and thus a statement of the deepest disappointment: the best of all worlds was not possible, therefore the worst must be probable. But if most people find it unhealthy to dwell in dreamland, very few people wish to believe in wholly dark visions either, not only because such visions run counter to human buoyancy, bul because one cannot stare indefinitely at broken objects without feeling an urge to mend them. History encompasses neither utopia nor hell. It squats like a bear...
Director James Ivory manages against many odds to intermingle scenes from the two time periods without detracting from either story. He mixes scenes which dwell on common themes, such as the infusion of British custom into the complex Indian society, and the heroines' search for emotional and physical fulfillment. Unlike The French Lieutenant's Woman, which presented concurrent plots clouded in fantasy and misty symbolism, Heat and Dust successfully intertwines the two plots such that both seem real and vibrant on their own. Yet it is only when they are considered as parts of a whole that the true power...
...first the Japanese appear to have remarkably little interest in the business at hand. Their conversation is likely to dwell at length on social and family concerns rather than on products and prices. Notes Andreas Meckel, secretary-general of the Japanese economic promotion office in Düsseldorf: "German and American businessmen wish to come to the main point straightaway, while Japanese want to create a personal atmosphere...
...high priority on dispelling customer fears. Buyers were promised that IBM service engineers would keep a close watch over the machines and quickly fix any glitches. The salesmen were so knowledgeable and thoroughly trained that their very presence inspired confidence. Univac representatives, by contrast, were seen to dwell on technical details that customers could barely follow...