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Another deftly entertaining American entry, the Coen brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", was ignored, as were some decent films from the festival's host country. Shinji Aoyama's "Eureka," a 3-hr, 17-min. "interior road movie" about three survivors of a terrorist attack, earned various critics' prizes for its stark beauty and psychological rigor, but the Japanese film was shut out as well in the main contest. And the strongest entry of the entire Festival, Ang Lee's thrilling action fantasy "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," was mysteriously shown out of competition, and thus ineligible for the jury...
...left in a men's room before their fumes could combine to form enough hydrogen cyanide to kill 10,000 people in seconds. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Meanwhile, Japanese police, continuing their investigation of the Aum Shinrikyo cult, arrested the group's top lawyer, Yoshinobu Aoyama, on charges of slander. As in other arrests, police have so far avoided charging that the cult was involved in the March 20 gassing on the Tokyo subway...
...innocent" over and over again in a singsong voice. In the other he exhorted, "Disciples, the time to awaken and help me is upon you. Let's carry out the salvation plan and face death without regrets." His attorney was less cosmic in his approach. Maintained Yoshinobu Aoyama: "We practice our religion on the basis of Buddhist doctrines such as no killing, so it is impossible that we are responsible. In my personal view, sarin could not be made by those other than special persons like those in the U.S. military. I speculate that someone in the military and state...
Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. Into a chunky, white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konnichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow...
...lanterns on their way to Hyannisport, Mass. The lanterns -one a three-ton, nine-foot model called kasuga, the other a one-ton, four-footer called yukimi ("snow-viewing" lantern)-are a present for President Kennedy from Professor Gunji Honoso, silver-haired international law expert at Tokyo's Aoyama Gakuin University, who got to know the President back in the days when Kennedy was a junketing Senator. Cost of both lanterns...