Word: microcosms
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...Atonement. Black and White in Color is the dark-horse winner of this year's Oscar for best foreign picture. It was filmed by a French unit in the Ivory Coast in what almost amounts to an act of atonement: the movie not only presents a comically petty microcosm of war, but in its terse, understated way gives a withering account of the racial ignorance and contempt on which colonialism was built. The result hardly renews one's faith in human nature, but it is consistently riveting and grimly amusing...
...these days, and it will come to rub shoulders with 8 1/2, Grand Illusion and other charter members in the pantheon of cinema. Robert Altman reveals the bankruptcy of the American psyche without one blink of the eye, using the country music world of Nashville as his chosen microcosm. Lily Tomlin made a giant leap towards her current cover-story stardom in the role of the gospel singer who staves off Keith Carradine's rakish advances. Both Geraldine Chaplin and Shelley Duvall are wasted in limiting characters that flirt with the stereotypical throughout the film; in any case...
...Next day, at that diplomatic microcosm in Manhattan, the U.N., Carter got a reception that was correct, attentive, but short of enthusiastic. The delegates were keenly interested in hearing him outline his strongly held, highly moralistic view of U.S. foreign policy priorities, but they found only four occasions to applaud during his 25-minute address. While many diplomats welcomed Carter's straight talk on human rights and other matters, one Western envoy sounded a fairly widely heard caveat: "A splash of fresh air is good, but if you open your window too wide, a gale will blow through." Nevertheless...
British Leyland is a microcosm of British industry's illnesses, including a reckless and desperate attitude of the workers toward their own company's welfare. "I can't pay my bills now," said one toolmaker. "So what difference does it make if I go on strike...
...really no cure for a balding pate, except a toupee or a hair transplant. Caught a cold? Forget about those nostrums plugged on TV, unless you want to toss your money away. Stymied by a sex problem? Your trouble is probably psychological, because the bedroom is only a microcosm of the outside world's stresses and strains...