Word: fates
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...most recent movie choices should keep her from that fate. They're all passion projects not calculated to draw a crowd: Sylvia, a biopic about Sylvia Plath; Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, an arch, retrofuturistic movie in which all the acting was done on an empty soundstage, then all the scenery added by computer; and her new film, Proof, about a woman whose life is almost the direct opposite of Paltrow's. She plays Catherine, whose years of caring for her mentally ill, math-genius father (Anthony Hopkins) have left her bitter, maybe nutso. After her father dies...
...much longer do americans have to feel guilty about Hiroshima? By dropping the atom bombs, the U.S. delivered millions of people from the jaws of the Japanese war machine. Every story about the fate of the Japanese victims should also mention the suffering the Japanese inflicted on China, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. Wan Chiu Hong Kong...
Well, I'd say they're not exactly political books. They're books about the intersection of private lives and public affairs, and they ask, in a way, time-honored novelistic questions of: To what extent are we the masters of our fate? To what extent do we make our lives, and to what extent are our lives made for us by forces beyond our control? I think the thing that has shifted in the modern era is that the balance of those two elements has been weighted more heavily on the side of loss of control. Our characters...
...then, 60 years of reflection have tempered my enthusiasm. Al Sartor Walnut Creek, California, U.S. How much longer do Americans have to feel guilty about Hiroshima? By dropping the atom bombs, the U.S. delivered millions of people from the jaws of the Japanese war machine. Every story about the fate of the Japanese victims should also mention the suffering the Japanese inflicted on China, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines. Wan Chiu Hong Kong The debt that the world owes the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is rarely articulated. It is in large part because of the horrific nature of their...
...much longer do Americans have to feel guilty about Hiroshima? By dropping the atom bombs, the U.S. delivered millions of people from the jaws of the Japanese war machine. Every story about the fate of the Japanese victims should also mention the suffering the Japanese inflicted on China, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines...