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...Sept. 21, 1938, seven years before the atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima, a hurricane descended with almost as little warning upon the northeast coastline of the U.S. Until then the land-lubbing public had known of "gales," "tempests," "blows," even "a bit of weather." But "hurricane" was a new and terrible escalation of apocalyptic power in the popular consciousness...
...schlock we've grown used to, Solaris promises to give us a provocative view of the race to space, and a commentary, perhaps, on the moral and political implications of expecting to treat other forms of life as "guinea pigs." Talk of morality, immorality, scientific abuse and Hiroshima hums through the first part of the film...
...calendar was so crowded that the eight-day faith festival was inevitably dubbed the "Catholic Olympics." There were Masses for children and the physically handicapped, blacks and Ruthenians, even a military Mass unwittingly scheduled on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing-so many Masses that the congress's congregations used 1,700,000 Communion wafers. Dave Brubeck and Ella Fitzgerald offered religious jazz, the Dance Theater of Harlem turned to religious choreography, and Monaco's Prince Rainier and Princess Grace addressed a "family life" conference...
...Hiroshima Mon Amour, 6:15, 9:40, and The Assassination of Trotsky, 7:50, ends today...
Your pictures told the story: the shaved heads, "beast barracks," the cruel faces of the plebes in formation, and the frightened clods being hazed or braced. Militarism, be it American or Prussian, is a stupid, vicious anachronism. Honor code? What honor is there in Balaclava, the Somme, Belsen, Dresden, Hiroshima...