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...this alien land, in this tiny, lovely film, Bob and Charlotte briefly create a home out of their kinship. They come to realize they're not locked in stasis; they are souls in transition, grazing each other and striking sweet sparks...
...issue on "the asian journey Home" was moving and thought provoking [Aug. 18-25]. It would also have been interesting to read an article by one of the Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korean agents. The victim could have described being forced to start a new life in an alien country and then, finally, being allowed to return to Japan. These Japanese were brutally snatched from their homeland and upon returning there had to leave behind children raised as North Koreans, not Japanese. Asami Oishi Osaka...
South Carolina may not be home ground for Kerry, but he figures it is alien territory for someone else. "I'm prepared to campaign in the South," says Kerry, "and elsewhere in the country where it's viewed as being harder." Harder, that is, for Democrats--and especially for one particular Democrat from Vermont who has become the darling of the party's angry antiwar, mostly northeastern left...
...Christian Europe, Chagall was a natural-born alien. So it's no surprise that he was never comfortable within the confines of any of the European "isms." He arrived in Paris for the first time in 1910, when the avant-garde was still working under the spell of Cubism. Chagall took from it only what he could use, mostly the possibilities that Cubist fracturing offered as a way to lightly structure the space in which his figures moved. As for the more dedicated Cubists around him in the Paris art world, he wrote, "Let them eat their fill of their...
...Stop Shopping For the butcher, baker and candlestick maker, the U.K. high street must seem more alien by the day. British retail bank Lloyds TSB last week announced plans to offer gas, electricity and phone services to customers starting this month. And what else is in store? For supermarket shoppers in the U.K., it could well be an in-house lawyer. Under government plans, supermarkets could soon be allowed to set up legal services for shoppers. The so-called "Tesco law" would see an in-shop solicitor drawing up a shopper's will. Is mixing services a good idea? Most...