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...right wing insists that Japan's "guilt" is a fiction created by Japan's conquerors. The majority of Japanese, how ever, believe their country should express contrition. In their eyes, Murayama did not go far enough. For one thing, he told reporters that Emperor Hirohito was not responsible for any wrongdoing. But a full airing of Japan's record, many believe, must begin with the admission that Hirohito himself largely conducted the war. Nevertheless, Murayama seized a dramatic occasion to say what thus far had been unsayable...
...Tarantino time. The popularity of Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction--the first independent film to earn more than $100 million at the U.S. box office--will midwife plenty of melodramas with Tarantino's signature plot: men in groups and on a heist, talking until the dark night of the soul gives way to a red dawn...
Future warfare, in fact, may look like today's science-fiction thrillers. "One day national leaders will fight out virtual wars before they decide to go to war at all," predicts Lieut. General Jay Garner, head of the Army's Space and Strategic Defense Command. Some futurists take it a step further. Countries will have their computers fight simulated wars instead of actual battles to decide who wins. Garner is not willing to go that far. "I have a hard time visualizing that warfare will be a video game devoid of pain...
Like politicians, movie critics should have limited terms. Over time they become jaded, stupid and self-serving. Remember, film critics actually liked that piece of sewage Pulp Fiction. I saw the movie Waterworld [SHOW BUSINESS, July 31], and it was great fun! The hero was intelligent, the characters interesting and the special effects dazzling. There was no filthy language and no overt sex, and good triumphed over evil. To all intelligent people, I say ignore Siskel and Ebert and their ilk, including TIME's reviewers. If you like to leave a theater smiling, I can highly recommend seeing Waterworld. LANORE...
This plan isn't economic. Even its proponents have largely given up on the absurd fiction that canceling America's meager $620 million worth of cultural programs will do anything to reduce the present budget deficit of $180 billion. Not when a Senate committee last month approved a pork load for the military of $7 billion more than the Pentagon asked...