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...Critic Robert Hughes, who wrote the story, spent several days in Carmel talking with Adams and examining his archives. "The people who think of Adams as a monument of the Old West are largely right," he concludes. "He is a bluff, sweet man with pronounced opinions that he doesn't hesitate to utter." Unfortunately for the house guest, one of Adams' strongest views concerns tobacco, and his home is papered with signs reading, "Thank you for not smoking. The American Cancer Society." Says Hughes: "Blistering rows occur if he smells smoke, so I would disappear into the garden...
...long after a lesser director would have cut his losses-but his movie remains a collection of footage. While much of the footage is breathtaking, Apocalypse Now is emotionally obtuse and intellectually empty. It is not so much an epic account of a grueling war as an incongruous, extravagant monument to artistic self-defeat...
Soon after the plane arrived, the group was taken to the site of the Warsaw ghetto. Every building, every person, had literally gone up in smoke when German troops annihilated the last holdout of Warsaw Jewry in 1943. At the steps of the monument, New York Businessman Benjamin Meed, who had been smuggled out of the ghetto just before its destruction, read his simple statement: "I hear once again their very last command to us all: 'Pamietaj! Remember! Never forget and never forgive!' " Later, racked with sobs, he recalled the years of hiding and flight. "On the last...
...those children, Elie Wiesel, led the commission on to Birkenau, the neighboring camp, where crematories once burned night and day. Linking arms with four other survivors, Wiesel marched over the tracks that had brought him here a world ago and laid a wreath on a monument to the fallen. "Do not let your eyes deceive you," he said quietly...
...Moscow, the only monument was a single synagogue. About 100 old men, their Rembrandt faces limned by faith, prayed as their ancestors have done for thousands of years. Here Rabbi Michael Berenbaum, 34, deputy director of the commission, read from Lamentations...