Word: cats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although Japanese hospitals are sometimes endowed with the latest hightech equipment, they often lack the trained personnel to use it. Japan has 2,500 computerized axial tomography (CAT) scanners, sophisticated X-ray devices that reveal detailed cross-sectional views of the body. Yet there are only 1,500 radiologists in the country to handle the machines. By contrast, the U.S. has about 2,800 CAT scanners, but more than 12,000 specialists are qualified to use them...
...than TV. Unlike the pulpy, stapled American product, manga are well bound and published in paperback size. The drawings are cinematic, displaying heroes and heroines in explicit sexual and military-war adventures. In recent years, manga have grown into a billion-dollar publishing venture. Doraemon, an atomic-powered robot cat, makes Garfield look like something the human dragged in. Created in 1970, Doraemon has now appeared in a 26-volume collection with sales of $50 million. In 1980 Akira Toriyama sold 15 million copies of his 17-volume sci-fi comic Dr. Slump. There is even a manga temple outside...
...industry. On television and in print, the cheery vision of Christie Brinkley, 28, sells everything from cosmetics to health spas. In the past six months alone, she has appeared on 20 magazine covers. The Christie Brinkley calendar is about the only serious competition for Garfield the Cat, and Christie Brinkley's Outdoor Beauty and Fitness Book is poised to shimmy up the bestseller list. So lest a bit of open wall in a teenager's bedroom not be filled with her image, here comes a new $3 poster, her first authorized pinup, with the subject in a Norma...
Renard, the first and lighter of the two showcases the skills of some talented dancers and displays the work of choreographer Decborah Wolf. Wolf's challenge is to project convincing illusions of a fox a rooster a cat and a goat through the bodies costumed only abstractly of four human dancers...
...minutes Renard encompasses the troupe not only meets the challenge but converts it into a delightful tour de force. The story involves a gullible rooster who is lured twice from his perch by the fox, but escapes and triumphs in the end with the help of his friends the cat and the goat. While the dancers silently cavort, a quartet of soloists in the orchestra pit sing the tale...