Word: hiroshima
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EMERSON HALL 210 Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black, April 26 at 9, April 27, 28 at 7:30 and 9:30, May 2-4 at 9. The Wild Child, April 26 at 7:30, Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour...
EMERSON HALL 210 Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black, April 26 at 9, April 27, 28 at 7:30 and 9:30, May 2-4 at 9. The Wild Child, April 26 at 7:30, Resnais' Hiroshima Mon Amour...
...August 1945, Harry Truman made the weightiest presidential decision of the 20th century. He later said he never lost a night's sleep over dropping the Bomb on Hiroshima. For that, some critics to this day condemn him for lack of reflectiveness - and worse. I'd call it decisiveness. And in wartime, decisiveness counts for more...
Unfortunately, the United States never signed the convention. With a Hiroshima-induced World War II victory fresh in their minds, the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Eisenhower administration nixed the convention for fear that it would impinge on America’s strategic use of nuclear weapons. Half a century later, it seems just a little hypocritical that it is in order to preserve the option of using weapons of mass destruction that the U.S. will not be held legally responsible for damage inflicted during a war waged in order to prevent the use of weapons of mass destruction?...
When Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo arrived in Paris in 1981 to show her Comme des Garcons ready-to-wear collection to the Western press for the first time, critics branded her mannish coats, inky palette and distressed fabrics "post-atomic" and "Hiroshima chic." They dismissed her unfinished seams and asymmetrical cuts as absurd...