Word: amis
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...over any of it," he asserts, "but because we don't deserve to be stuck with the Palestinians." Technocrats are still figuring out how to handle a physical separation. Military sources say it will mean building Israeli-only roads around Palestinian towns in the West Bank. Foreign Minister Ben-Ami declines to say if separation will mean pulling out of some Jewish settlements. In Jerusalem, he admits, "it's not easy at all" to separate the Arab and Jewish neighborhoods that are cheek by jowl throughout the eastern part of the city...
...option it has found. It would break many of the close economic, political and legal links that have grown out of years of occupation, from the Israeli cell phones that Palestinians carry at their hips to the Palestinian sweet potatoes on Israeli dinner tables. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami says the separation plan will kick in only if Arafat declares his state unilaterally, as he threatens to do after Nov. 15. That state was supposed to be negotiated with Israel, so, Ben-Ami says, Israel will view a declaration as the end of the peace process. President Bill Clinton...
...ami Koetsu, the Japanese artist, is scarcely known in the U.S., but in Japan he is a national treasure several times over--about as famous there as Benvenuto Cellini is in the West. This is because he was one of the supreme masters of calligraphy, an art that matters only to specialists on the American side of the Pacific but is wholly central to Japanese and Chinese aesthetics. It's understandable, therefore, that the present show of Koetsu's work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, though respectably attended, has not been packing in the crowds. This is a boon...
...ami Koetsu, the Japanese artist, is scarcely known in the U.S., but in Japan he is a national treasure several times over - about as famous there as Benvenuto Cellini is in the West. This is because he was one of the supreme masters of calligraphy, an art that matters only to specialists on the American side of the Pacific but is wholly central to Japanese and Chinese aesthetics. It's understandable, therefore, that the present show of Koetsu's work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, though respectably attended, has not been packing in the crowds. This is a boon...
...Arts of Hon'ami Koetsu, Japanese Renaissance Master" is the Philadelphia Museum of Art's major show this fall--the first comprehensive Koetsu exhibition outside Japan. It will be on view through Oct. 29 and is not to be missed...