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...traditional magnet for Buddhist pilgrims, Zenkoji is approached past a long line of shops selling religious artifacts (though, this being Japan, they also offer pink bunnies and nudie telephone cards). Sidewalks brim with tables full of dried apricots and pumpkin seeds and sachets of apple tea. For all its modern accessories, Nagano remains a farmers' town sought out for its pickles, its horseradishes and its homemade buckwheat noodles. Next to the feminine grace notes of a Kyoto, say, the northern city feels a decidedly masculine place. Its colors are brown and black, its aesthetic one of straw and stone...
Taymor's imaginative ideas seem limitless. Actors wear masks atop their heads and manipulate life-size puppets, in bold defiance of conventional stage literalism. Dance numbers brim with vibrant, African-carnival colors; the big action sequences, like a wildebeest stampede conveyed by wheels and masks, dazzle with their allusive originality. Some of the most striking images are the simplest. Women with grass headdresses stand in a row and sway to manifest wind in the African savanna. When the lionesses grieve over the death of their King, Mufasa, they pull ribbons of fabric from their eyes to suggest tears...
...even the good old H2O on the battered Russian space station is drying up. No more than two-months' worth is left; perhaps as little as six weeks remains. But NASA is riding to the rescue: the Shuttle will ride up there in September, filled to the brim with aquatic sustenance. It may not be Evian, but the Russians should be grateful. Who knows, by then they might be reduced to drinking their vodka neat...
CITE is a work in progress. Almost 10% of students have quit before completing their internship--some complaining that even with this innovative work-study model, they feel ill prepared to run a class. The interns' journals brim with fears and frustrations, and their mentors are still learning when to intervene and when to let interns learn from their mistakes...
Those enterprising folk at the Independent have done it again. We at Dartboard are pleased to herald the arrival of the 1997 edition of the undergraduate survey. Filled to the brim with startling revelations concerning student life, we can hardly tear ourselves away from the two-page spread of gathered facts. Did you know that only 15 percent of students use the Web as a news source...