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...possible in hindsight to entertain hypothetical doubt about whether an invasion of the Japanese home islands would have been absolutely necessary at that stage of the war. Perhaps the Japanese would have submitted, although nothing in experience predicted that. One may argue whether the nuclear bombs really saved a million or two or more lives, Japanese and American, that might have been lost in a protracted endgame. But sometimes hindsight is decadent and a little fatuous...
...always the film shows the hues of its 1978 setting with music that toes the line between porn and disco. The dress and wigs and expressions will astound, entertain and horrify you all at the same time...
...congressional leaders were less adamant. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Daniel Patrick Moynihan said only that he was committed to health care as a "national goal." "It's looking bad," says TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson. "I think that for the first time the White House is beginning to entertain the idea that it just may not happen...
...million population has been killed or displaced since April, and that number is growing daily as massacres continue in government-held territories. "Our people have been totally traumatized," says rebel Captain Richard Matsiko, a medical doctor treating massacre victims behind the front lines. "Children who could talk, laugh and entertain are just blank. They don't know what has happened to them...
This could turn into a story of Moonie-like brainwashing or, at least, a Spielbergian audition for spiritual star quality. But Bertolucci is remarkably open-minded; he is eager to entertain and then to accept the beliefs and rhythms of another, older culture. The film's loveliest sections are those that concern the life of Siddhartha, the Indian prince who renounced worldly pleasures and religious extremism to find the Middle Way of Buddhist truth. Siddhartha is played with improbable persuasiveness by Keanu Reeves, another of Bertolucci's eccentric choices in Little Buddha that...