Word: holocaust
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...scenario is not too elaborate or cynical for the byzantine world of show biz: sponsor recalcitrance triggers stress. Tapes are leaked, positions taken, battle lines drawn, articles written. No movie since CBS's 1980 Holocaust film Playing for Time has stirred such a dust devil of ideological p.r., but the stakes are even larger here. The Day After cost an opulent $7 million, and its promotion budget may ultimately equal that fig ure. ABC, gambling that it will make up in ratings what it misses in ad dollars, schedules the film for sweeps week, when the three networks...
SOME SCENES are too simplistic even for a Bond film. World diplomats react to Largo's threat of nuclear holocaust like actors in a fourth-grade play, stiffly delivering throwaway lines like "This is the ultimate nightmare" and "I hope the American government realizes its large, large responsibility." And the producers are just a bit too casual in casting Bernie Casey as Bond's CIA buddy. Since Never's production company is not the usual Albert Broccoli crew, having different actors play the same roles is to be expected--in fact, Broccoli wouldn't let this movie...
Every four years since then, the world has come together to be pulled further apart in the only event that seems to matter: the international tug o' war. Munich in 1972 was a reprise of the Holocaust. Two dozen African nations, one full ring off the Olympic charm bracelet of continents, disengaged from Montreal in 1976 rather than associate with New Zealand, whose rugby team had scrummed in apartheid-infested South Africa. The U.S. and 35 sympathizers boycotted the 1980 Games in Moscow to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. With Americans currently enraged at the U.S.S.R. for shooting down...
Poland and, eventually, Europe could not hold Israel. He fled to America, where he became one of the most outspoken of the early anti-Stalinist writers. A short while later, he sent for his brother, thus saving him from certain annihilation in the Holocaust. But he could not forestall tragedy. Early in 1944, Israel died of a heart attack in New York City. It was, his younger brother remembers, "the greatest misfortune of my entire life. He was my father, my teacher. I never really recovered from this blow...
...cycle of vengeance that would otherwise follow a crime. But between nations there is no comparable agency to prevent historical wounds from festering endlessly. Nothing, except the apology. In an almost miraculous way, it seems capable of binding the wounds. Compare the legacies of the Holocaust and the Armenian massacres of 1915. The postwar German government accepted responsibility for the nation's actions, and offered acknowledgment and reparations to the survivors. The Nazi crime was more vast, more methodical, more successful than the Turks'. Yet it is Armenian terrorists who attack diplomats, embassies and airlines, sometimes demanding...