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Unlike a closeup look at the moon, the visual impact of Pacific Overtures is ravishingly beautiful. The screens and sets (Boris Aronson) and costumes (Florence Klotz) transport one hypnotically into the realm of ukiyoe, the "floating world" of the Japanese print. The shape and tone of the show is that of a Kabuki-styled operetta. It is audaciously ambitious and flagrantly pretentious. Pacific Overtures attempts to portray the Westernization of Japan after the arrival of Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry's trade mission in 1853. The appearance of Perry's battleship is the evening's showstopper. First...
...church's organization shows a feudally hierarchic side of Mormonism that helps lead to its political conservatism. The impact of revelations depends on one's position in the church: Prophet Kimball's revelations can change all Mormon doctrine (Prophet Wilford Woodruff did just that on the polygamy questions in the 1890s, after a federal crackdown on polygamy sent many prominent Mormons to prison.) The revelations of the head of the Boston stake (or diocese) will affect the stake (in the choice of a branch president, for example), and each individual's revelations are restricted to his or her self...
...Small Impact. In pleading the Concorde's case, Gerald Kaufman, British Minister of State in the Department of Industry, pointed out that the FAA'S own study indicated that the environmental impact of the Concorde on New York would be small, its effect on the Dulles area all but nonexistent. Furthermore, he insisted, if Britain and France seriously believed that a limited number of Concorde flights might thin out the ozone layer, they would not be advocating flights that could harm their peoples too. "Your environment is our environment," he told the hearing. "Your ozone layer...
Improving Indicators. To the indications of an improving economy can now be added the stock market itself. Economists have long debated whether swings in stock prices help to cause recessions and recoveries, as well as signaling them. The general view is that at the very least they have some impact. Among other things, rising stock prices make it easier for companies to raise money, and make millions of people feel richer and more cheerful-an economic factor of no small importance...
...external elegance is paralleled by an elegance of form. Not a shot is wasted. There is no padding, no elongation of emotion to make it seem more profound. Truffaut moves fast, making his points so quickly that there is no time to intellectualize them. Film is as immediate in impact as it should be. The whole burden of Adele's life, complex and important as it is, is summed up in one piece of dialogue. Adele goes to see a British judge whose daughter is engaged to marry the Lieutenant. Adele wants to break up the engagement by hook...