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...same time that the Bunker Hill was aflame, Lieut. General Simon Bolivar Buckner, commander of the American forces fighting to capture Okinawa, was undertaking a new offensive to seize control of the island. The Americans knew the tiny speck in the Pacific was the ultimate stepping-stone to the empire's home islands. Throughout the 83-day struggle for Okinawa, Buckner's favorite toast, over bourbon and water, was "May you walk in the ashes of Tokyo." Aware of this objective, his enemy, Lieut. General Mitsuru Ushijima, prepared a war of attrition to keep Okinawa from becoming a staging ground...
...late night Delta flight from Chicago O'Hare in the summer of 1993, the junior pilot begins his normal interruptions about the names of the towns while passengers stare out of the window at the patches of light below, pretending they can see more than a tiny speck...
GINNY LUI SITS UNDER A 100-WATT light bulb, studying spoons. The spoons have gone through eight full cycles in one or another of a battery of 20 dishwashers; Lui's task is to examine each one for telltale signs of dirt. If she detects a speck, she must then decide just what sort of speck she has spotted. Is it gritty? Is it "medium soil" or "heavy soil"? When she runs through all the spoons, Lui turns to plates and cups and knives and glasses that have been emptied from the dishwashers, making the same inspections and rendering...
...minuscule the particles truly are. He tells her, "I could put an atom into your hand for every second since the world began, and you would have to squint to see the dot of atoms in your palm." Some men offer their beloved the moon. Kerner offers his a speck in her palm -- a glimpse into the micro-basement of the universe -- and she is enchanted. And the audience...
...young son are as touching and chilling as anything on TV all year. The film's melodramatic finish is more upbeat than the novel's, but nearly every moment is gripping, intelligent, uncompromising. It took a Nazi victory, alas, to create the first movie about the '60s without a speck of nostalgia...