Word: hiroshima
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...years ago, in an eerie foreshadowing of the World Trade Center attack, the writer John McPhee explored with nuclear physicist Ted Taylor the question of how you could topple the Twin Towers with a small atomic bomb. Positioned correctly, McPhee reported, a nuke a tenth as powerful as Hiroshima's could knock a tower into the Hudson River...
...Pearl Harbor, the point of comparison for most media polls. Other attacks, other comparisons, nonetheless obtain. A retired firefighter, I believe, and whose name unfortunately I cannot remember, reminded viewers on one of the networks that groups of Americans danced in the streets upon hearing of the bombing of Hiroshima. The attacks, and comparisons, can proliferate, depending on ones perspective, memory, and knowledge. It is just such proliferation that, I submit, we must heed, and resist...
...about movies in the San Francisco Bay Area before serving as the New Yorker's film critic from 1968 until her retirement in 1991 (with a one-year break for a fling at Hollywood producing). In her colloquial, compulsively readable prose, she punctured the pretensions of arty classics from Hiroshima, Mon Amour to 2001: A Space Odyssey; championed such American filmmakers as Steven Spielberg, Brian De Palma and Robert Altman; hailed Last Tango in Paris as a cultural event to rival Stravinsky's Rite of Spring; and celebrated the appeal of pop American moviemaking, where "trash" (a favorite term...
...Born in Hiroshima, Samuragoch was so precocious that, at age 5, as his mother tells him, he was creating compositions for the marimba. Samuragoch himself remembers composing his own music at age 10. Although he studied piano as a child, he didn't have much formal training and taught himself to compose. He is a traditionalist, a student and an admirer of such Western composers as Beethoven and Mozart, and he is dismissive of modern, atonal music. "I like harmony," he says. "Sometimes I think I was born at the wrong time...
...both, simultaneously. The jury is still out. And may always be out. This ambivalence is simply the dualism of the world, the secret of its magnetic fields, its gigantic plus and stupendous minus. We split the atom, and what was the moral meaning of Hiroshima? The lives saved? Or the lives incinerated...