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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...
...accommodate a thunderous fortissimo, the Berliners showed off the strengths that have made them the class of world-class ensembles. First there are the string sections, violins, violas, cellos and basses, which play together as one, producing a dark, creamy sound unsurpassed in lushness and sheer beauty. The brasses gleam like the finest gold, with especially choice nuggets among the horns. And there are the woodwinds, blending their highly distinctive sounds together like expert chamber musicians. In concert, the Berlin Philharmonic becomes a single instrument, devised by a craftsman on the order of a Stradivarius, played by a consummate virtuoso...
...long night in Lamont and--like a band of medieval knights seeking out the holy grail--you found your way up Mass Ave., turned right at the Long Funeral Home and...got lost. Fortunately, you found a ragged stranger, approached him. "Would you tell me," you asked with a gleam in your eye, "how to get to Steve's?" The stranger always knew...