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Pope John Paul II is currently attempting to throw a similar ideological hand grenade. Veritatis Splendor (The Splendor of Truth), the encyclical which will be formally issued tomorrow, is a reaction to what the Pope writes is "an overall and systematic calling into question of traditional moral doctrine." According to The New York Times, which obtained an official English translation of the edict, the document details "fundamental moral principles" which "transcend all eras and cultures...
...answer is in their pasts in China, flashbacks that give The Joy Luck Club its epic radiance. The domestic dilemmas in the American scenes are minute compared with the enthralling tragedies laid out amid period splendor: brutal husbands, wicked stepmothers, subjugation and betrayal, lives ruined, babies sacrificed -- and, on the young women's part, a wondrous ferocity of will. The large ensemble (mothers and daughters at two or three ages) is evidence of Hollywood's untapped wealth of Chinese-American actresses. One warning: the typhoon of emotions makes this an eight-handkerchief movie. Bring four for the mothers, four...
Otherwise, more challenges to the church's dictates, handed down in magisterial splendor, can be expected with increasing frequency...
Toomer was writing an "interpretive analysis" of lynching in the post-civil war period. For her, a well off Black woman raised in the sunny splendor of Southern California, the project became a painful trip into a violent past she had never before confronted...
Consequently, to go through this show only once produces surfeit. It demands repeated visits, and at the end of each you are called back, not only by the splendor of the works but also by a sort of postcoital regret provoked by the contrast between the achievements of 16th century Venetian art and the sad entropy of our own fin de siecle...