Word: bout
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...Western. And this extraordinary new hybrid culture - not widely shared in less privileged Japanese circles, it is true - was at least partly meant to elicit positive Western views of Japan. Although dynamic, industrious, imaginative and in many ways deeply admirable, late 19th century Japanese were suffering from a severe bout of country-cousin self-consciousness...
...protests threatened chronic instability, the military remains the ultimate arbiter of power in Jakarta. And while they're staying out of the parliamentary fray, the generals have warned the politicians to keep their differences off the streets. While there are no fears of an imminent coup, a long-term bout of political instability at the center amid an unraveling in the provinces would certainly raise the temptation among the generals to reassert a more direct grip on power. And right now it's hard to imagine any of the alternatives to Wahid escaping the chronic instability and infighting that...
...truth is, I hated this Bikram class when I started. At first I returned only because I was desperate--the victim of a muscle-kinking bout of business travel (cramped airline seats and strange beds). Our teacher, Leah Weisman, seemed to talk incessantly. The room was always full, from 30 to 50 people. And the space was intentionally overheated...
...truth is, I hated this Bikram class when I started. At first I returned only because I was desperate - the victim of a muscle-kinking bout of business travel (cramped airline seats and strange beds). Our teacher, Leah Weisman, seemed to talk incessantly. The room was always full, from 30 to 50 people. And the space was intentionally overheated...
...Arrivée à New York," currently playing to sellout audiences at Paris' Gaité Montparnasse theater, is based on Céline's classic 1932 novel "Voyage au Bout de la Nuit." Wearing a worn jacket and a grey scarf, Luchini emerges onto a nearly empty stage. He peers into the distance with his round hazel eyes and, for the next 80 minutes, holds the audience spellbound with the first-person narrative of a young Frenchman's voyage to America on the eve of the Depression. He takes Céline's persona from the scary, impersonal streets...