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Though not all seats were filled at the Saturday afternoon performance, the local amateur skaters and renowned professionals drew hearty applause from the crowd...
Koetsu made ceramics too. In fact, he is seen in Japan as one of the two greatest potters of the 17th century, the other being Nomomura Nisei. But Nisei was a professional, and he specialized in such tea utensils as caddies and incense jars. The amateur Koetsu sometimes worked with potters and sometimes commissioned pieces from them; his approval became a signature of authorship. His passion was tea bowls--the "active," intimately handled objects of a ceremony that, imported from China, had been turned by its first Japanese grandmaster, Sen No Rikyu, into a cultural rite linked to Zen Buddhism...
...Koetsu is one of those artists who elude classifications, even those of his own time and place. He remains the consummate amateur, drawing his authority from the peculiar independence of his work. It's not surprising that there is no one else quite like him in the West, because there was no one else in Japan either...
...another lesson in the vanishing line between the genuine and the artificial, the amateur and the pundit. And that was underscored in the news networks' post-debate "town meetings" and "focus groups," where the undecideds proved they could out-commentate the commentators. With disturbing professionalism, they dissected the candidates' performances and body language like bloodless insiders. "[Gore] seemed more genuine in his answers," said one - not "was," but "seemed...
Legal sports betting on college games is a widely recognized source of many problems, including game rigging and point shaving, because of its all-pervasive nature and the money and pressure involved. It is simply common sense to minimize this threat to amateur sports. College athletes--most of whom have little money--are particularly vulnerable to the entreaties of bettors. However, your story confirms that we are up against a Goliath. The gaming industry has succeeded in stalling bills in both the House and Senate that would ban legal wagering on college sports--legislation that congressional leaders have said would...