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...script also called for Congressman Silvio Conte to get a phone call from Ronald Reagan, the admirer who had a portrait of the parsimonious Coolidge moved into the Cabinet Room 2½ years ago. The chat between John Coolidge and Reagan will be beamed out over the lawn. John thought he might tell the story of his father's taking his two boys to stand in front of a bank. "See if you can hear anything," Coolidge admonished. They could not and so reported. "I thought if you listened carefully you might hear your money working...
...would be convenient to conclude that Peirce and Hagstrom have assembled a portrait of a middle-aged U.S., its seas a little less shining, the waves of grain ringed by bald patches of subdivisions, the once purple mountains now mauve with smog. But the country does not age evenly. Alaska is barely in its adolescence; high tech has given sagging Massachusetts a facelift, and much of the South is having a rebirth. North Carolina is now tenth in population with the highest percentage of workers employed by industry. Unfortunately, there are signs of sclerosis in the heartland. "Sadly...
...been so lucky as Chrysler in 1983, but there are small stirrings of renaissance. In May, for only the second time since 1954, the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival went to a Japanese film: Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, an elemental and unsentimentahzed portrait of Japan's mountain people in the 1880s. The same festival also showcased Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, a P.O.W. melodrama set in Java in 1942 starring David Bowie and two popular Japanese performers, Singer-Songwriter Ryuichi Sakamoto and the TV comic Takeshi. Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence...
...Strong? Of course she is, but only on one level...") They seem to have no personality, no motivation for their actions, and only Yasuko, under her mother-in-law's spell, can be believable in such a state. The author fails miserably in her attempts to provide a psychological portrait of her main character, Mieko, primarily because she dwells on events in the woman's past rather than their actual effects on the character herself...
Contemporary historians like to pretend that they are not the people who make history. Self-conscious about their central role in carving out a portrait of the past, they lapse into academic mumbling. Pick a manageable (small) subject, process enough data, arrange all available figures into charts and graphs, studiously suppress any hint of narrative judgment or point of view, and truth will be served. As a result, libraries are filling up with inaccessible accuracy, exhaustively researched big books on tiny topics. But facts do not speak for themselves; they are not even facts until someone formulates them. History...