Word: artiste
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...Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan, tells the unlikely story of how a boy born in Brooklyn in 1922 grew increasingly drawn to a country that many in his generation would know only as an enemy to fear and conquer. Lovingly illustrated by the artist Akira Yamaguchi, the book limns a life inseparably linked to its dominant passion. "I sometimes think," Keene writes, "that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there would not be much left...
...WERE ON OUR WAY, we hoped, to freedom," said British pilot Bertram (Jimmy) James of his exploits as a prisoner of war and a perennially frustrated escape artist. "That wasn't quite the case." After taking part in the most famous attempt of World War II--the mass exit from Poland's Stalag Luft III, depicted in the 1963 film The Great Escape-- James survived a labor camp and went on to work in Britain's diplomatic service. James...
TAMARA JENKINS Movie: The Savages Once worked as: A performance artist; an essayist Unlikely heroine: A lying, cheating failed playwright...
...unoriginal” is not always clear. Fortunately, new record “It Is Time for a Love Revolution” evokes no such ambiguity. Despite his progressive album title, Kravitz proves that he is one of the most blatantly derivative, not to mention boring, artists recording today. Take, for example, lead single “I’ll Be Waiting,” in which Kravitz sings while playing the same three piano chords over and over. The verses are sappy, uninspiring, and sure to appear on many 14-year-old girls’ MySpace pages...
...Lost,” Bruce Weber’s 1988 documentary, when legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker betrays a rare moment of honesty. When Baker learns in an interview that he’s secured a shipment of prescription painkillers from a doctor in Europe, the once-great artist looks with the pain of a mendicant in his eyes and says, “I didn’t know if I would make it through the week.”Screened for the first time in ten years this past weekend at the Brattle Theater, “Let?...