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...invasion of Czechoslovakia--has been most impotent of all. Last week's acts were no Christmas bombings, inflicted by policy-makers removed from the people they hurt by thousands of miles of geography and inhumanity. Unlike the Christmas bombings, they had readily comprehensible historical explanations--though these were certainly weightier to the perpetrators than to the victims...
...President Kennedy's assassination. "It wasn't the greatest week to have a comedy on," Stoppard recalls. Three years later came Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead-and fame. In view of the gentle, unassuming nature of Tom Stoppard's personality, fame is a word no weightier than a feather...
Ironically, one of Hemlock Stones's peculiar assertions is the strongest warning against this album. The British crime-stopper says that when a rat stops chewing, his teeth will grow into his brain. Those who drop weightier matters to listen to this flim risk a similar mental fate...
...painting into a challenge to it. His later masterpieces are such still-life images as An Apple. A Boulder, A Mountain (1921): one of a series done with tiny stops (down to f. 128) and immensely long exposures (up to 36 hours). The result is density: the image seems weightier, more substantial than any apple could be. It is not an imitation of Cézanne but a photographer's equivalent of those absorbed perceptions of tactility and gravity that Cézanne brought to the study of everything from fruit to Mt. Sainte-Victoire...
...fading political fortunes of Sato and his pro-American policies. His party can probably stay in power, but much rancor against the U.S. will remain. About the best that can be said of the settlement is that it frees both U.S. and Japanese officials to concentrate on weightier matters-revaluation of the Japanese yen, for example, and removal of the U.S. 10% import surcharge on all foreign goods. Americans and Japanese can only hope that on those issues both sides will have more of a feel for the other's sensibilities than they have shown in the sorry textile...