Word: asceticism
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It's odd that after the director spent so much time working on the accents of some characters, like Press, that others have none. A brief sojourn in Europe must have rid Catherine Holly (Anne Schott) of her accent, and Sister Felicity (Sally Milius) must have drowned hers in the...
Both visions of modern Japanese design are correct. Where on the one hand there is Tokyo, on the other there is Kyoto, the perfect religious city. On street corners and in train stations are impeccably printed surreal posters that seem only incidentally to be advertising, but in the pages of...
Tadao Ando, 45, is the most influential figure among Japan's baby-boomer architects. Combative, ascetic, a radical traditionalist, he is the perfect maverick: after wandering across the U.S. in the '60s, he aspired to a professional boxing career before becoming an architect. He is something of a Zen zealot...
Its narrator is a tall, thin ascetic named Bruce Chatwin, a migratory writer fascinated by nomadic peoples and the origins of human nature. His curiosity takes him to Australia, where he has heard that the continent is entwined by songlines, invisible paths that the aboriginals can read like sheet music...
Simpson, the Senate's Republican whip, does not hesitate these days to identify the distinguishing feature of Baker's two-month stewardship in the boiler room of the White House: "innate civility and kindness." That's an oddity after decades of worshiping brilliance, cunning and toughness. We have had the...