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After we had set out on the tatami our quilts and pillows of buckwheat chaff and were lying and listening, there started up in the near pines an unearthly sound. Out it went, then from farther away returned a call and, from farther yet, still another, until the slopes rang with cries. I asked what bird it was that made that noise. "Can it be a real bird?" Tadashi said. "Wild monkeys also live in these mountains." The last thing he said was, "Who sleeps with such a bird going...
...real McCoy. But what this slowly paced film lacks in top-flight mystery is made up for by its compelling authenticity; in fact, director Daniel Vigne recreates 16th-century village life in painstaking detail. The film spills over with highly convincing silhouettes of village routines--shaking the chaff from the grain in woven baskets, donning animal costumes for a religious festival, and the ubiquitous grape-stomping. Remarkably enough, the village men and women boast wrinkles, bulges and (best of all) noses--Artifat's denizens look as though they were yanked off a Bruegel canvas, not a studio backlot. Enhanced...
...painting. For Gainsborough was his own man: not a grand one, but not a toady or a leech either. "Damn Gentlemen," he once wrote. "There is not such a set of Enemies, to a real Artist, in the world as they are ... But I, who blow away all the chaff & by G- in their Eyes too if they dont stand clear, know that they have but one part worth looking at, and that is their Purse...
...Home Journal, and either her editors or her own sense of her audience mar some of the pieces in Off Center. The McCall's article on the Moonies, for instance, opens with a paragraph as purple and swollen as a bad bruise. Sometimes Harrison's inspired chat turns to chaff--she goes completely gaga over Dick Cavett in a profile piece that is all flutter and giggles, just like the show. Occasionally we get the feeling that she is using words and criticisms for the sheer joy of being liberated, free to say what she wants...
Corporations, however, have a host of signs to separate the wheat from the chaff among those climbing the corporate ladder. Bank of America employees, for example, know that they have made it when they are given stationery with the bank's logo in gold rather than black ink. One of the most elaborate status classifications is at Ford, where employees are graded on a scale of 1 (clerks and secretaries) to 27 (chairman of the board). Grade 9, the lowest level of executive, carries the right to an outside parking place, while Grade 13 brings a larger office, windows...