Return to Paradise

Edward Rothstein's review in yesterday's New York Times–

Museum’s Vision:
West Coast Paradise —

seems to me more a description of Hell.

My own concept of paradise is closer to the Gary Cooper film "Return to Paradise," which impressed me greatly when I saw it on TV when I was in 10th grade.

A related vision: two frames from the Jodie Foster film "Contact"–

See Storyline and Time Fold.

See also another Michener-based
production, the current
Lincoln Center "South Pacific."

"Who can explain it,
who can tell you why?"