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...They hurl it at the sky like a paintpot full of rainbows, and then make it chant a dirge for man's fate and man's follies that is as mournful as misty spring rain crying over the fallow earth. Rarely has a people paid the lavish compliment and taken the subtle revenge of turning its oppressor's speech into sorcery...
...dynamism, the energy of the Japanese" was a recurring theme of Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold's many dispatches for this week's cover story on Japan, its people, and its place in the world and history. The Japanese could easily return the compliment. Reingold and his colleagues, Frank Iwama and S. Chang, covered the country from Hokkaido to Kyushu and Okinawa. They attended cheerful festivals as well as grim student riots; they interviewed philosophers, business magnates, artists, shopkeepers, critics and politicians (including Premier Sato). "In a way, I have been working on this cover ever since...
...directly in size and price with Volkswagens, Toyotas and Datsuns-just as the compacts were originally introduced in the 1950s to counter rising sales of imports. But while the compacts grew in size and power over the years, the automakers now are expected to pay Volkswagen something of a compliment of imitation by leaving their subcompacts basically the same in size and style from year to year. "New models every year and all this hoi-polloi about introductions and all that are becoming passe," says Henry Ford. "Planned obsolescence is out the window...
...before the premiere, Mayor John Lindsay presented Balanchine with the city's Handel Medallion in recognition of his cultural contributions to New York. "If we could bottle the New York City Ballet," said Lindsay, "it would be the city's finest export." Then Who Cares? returned the compliment by offering a splendid sampling: Manhattan, oldfashioned, wry and sweet...
...Hair, she was in deed pregnant, and it was thought that she was going to have her baby onstage. Someone even claimed that Andy Warhol had taken pictures of her child's birth for Avant- Garde magazine. In terms of Hair, another tribesman paid Sally Eaton the ultimate compliment in likening her dressing room to Alices Restaurant; I regretted having missed that scene...