Word: gleaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Books; ($60) is a grand but personal tour of these and all the other Smithsonian collections, including such exotic arrays as the Freer Gallery's elegant Orientalia and the rich lode of artifacts in the Museum of African Art. It is sobering to realize that the treasures that gleam from these 470 pages are a mere sample of the national attic's contents...
...gallon of o.j. Boutiques are ripe for window-shopping, but what if you really need to buy clothes? Gentrification is usually pleasing to the eye, but less kind to the pocket. And as time wears on, even the slick interiors and brass railings lose a bit of their gleam. The process just becomes too predictable--the porcelain tile tables and ceiling fans follow the influx of young professionals with clockwork precision...
Daniel finds no concrete answers; there simply is no way to determine his parents' guilt or innocence. And by the end of the movie that mystery seems almost irrelevant in light of the insight Daniel and the audience gleam on familial relationships, the effect of politics upon personal lives, and the individual's defenselessness against history...
...imagery of the visitors' PX: the white gleam of refrigerators and stove enamel, the iconography of GE and Hoover, so utterly different from the traditional dimness of the Japanese house and the mandatory drabness of wartime, with its austerity colors and nocturnal blackout. On a popular level, the war had caused an immense disenchantment with traditional Japanese architecture, wood and paper: "weak" materials, which burned. Concrete and steel were the substances of a victor culture, and the huge termitary cities of Japan were rebuilt with them...
...aroused in support of one's own side. Open as they are, wars are essentially private acts, guilty violations of civilized standards. "Now and then," wrote Ernest Bennett about "potting Dervishes" in the Westminster Gazette in 1898, "I caught in a man's eye the curious gleam which comes from the joy of shedding blood-that mysterious impulse which, despite all the veneer of civilization, still holds its own in a man's nature." If most generals had their way, wars would probably be fought on other planets, free from inspection that leads to judgment, which itself...