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Underneath its veneer of Oriental politesse and indirection, Tanaka's message was remarkably similar. "Not even the United States, with all its might, can unilaterally solve the problems that beset the world today," the Japanese Prime Minister said in a speech to the National Press Club. "Nor should we expect it to do so. These challenges can be met only through global cooperation, and especially through the close collaboration of Japan, the U.S. and Europe." Washington's decision to cut back on exports of soybeans, one of Japan's principal sources of protein, coupled with various other...
...unholy drives that leave them prey to Coburn's mercy, the crumbling self-images which they are struggling to maintain through his promised largesse, is never explored. The events on the yacht pass through their minds without triggering a trace of self-realization. Their lives are framed as veneer on a tricky plot. Unable to scare up interest in its pursuit of a killer, and without the commitment to analyze its characters, Sheila goes down flashily, like a luxury liner, overloaded with champagne...
...social order. The movie appeases the national trauma about women with a sophisticated sleight-of-hand. Not only does it couch its message in 19th century terms, but it refuses even to define Nora in relation to them. It thus disguises the problem and allays it by spreading a veneer of euphoria over it. The ending of the movie is an affirmation of individual female liberation that denies collective liberation. It overlooks the fact that the fight for human equality in the face of a sexist system threatens the substructure of that system. Denying this insight, the movie denies...
Just as I was considering building a home in Austria and putting in some annuals, our chores finally came to an end. Four weeks and umpteen transatlantic phone calls after it began, I returned home-richer, thinner, sporting a veneer of Weltschmerz and the ability to do a staggering imitation of R. Burton, which is pretty effective, if not particularly useful...
...Divine Light Club resembles no one so much as another better-known tightly-knit religious group: The Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship. At another level, the psychic attractions of the two groups seem to be similar. In members of both one finds a wide-eyed sense of salvation under the veneer of conformity and an eagerness to expound on the glory of it all. Like their Christian counterparts, they speak of the security that knowledge gives...