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Just before the final shootout in Brother, the yakuza played by Takeshi Kitano walks into a diner out in the California desert. The old man behind the counter takes a long look at him and says, "You Japanese are very inscrutable...
...Brother, Aniki hands a wad of money to the old man behind the counter. "For the repairs," he says, and walks out the door to be mowed down in gunfire that will obliterate the diner. Aniki may be a homicidal-suicidal yakuza, but you have to admire a man who leaves...
...Cheney's butcher told TIME that the Vice President hasn't been coming by as often for his favorite cuts--porterhouse and rib-eye steaks. On his recent visits to the Someplace Special Giant Gourmet in McLean, Va., says meat manager Tim Bowman, Cheney moseyed right past the meat counter. "I guess as soon as they say he can eat more," says Bowman, "he'll buy more...
...been said that listening to Mozart makes you smarter, that something in the musical patterns stimulates intelligence. The author Stefan Kanfer proposes a counter-theory, which he calls the "Trazom Effect," after Mozart spelled backward. Kanfer's idea is that listening to certain people, or ideas, or music, can make a person dangerously stupid. The Trazom Effect is at work up and down the pop-cultural horizontal on which we live...
...asanas (yoga positions). "Yoga exercise brings on hormonal changes," she says. "Children should not practice it because it affects their growth system." There are no studies supporting that contention, but Christensen says there has not been enough time to assess yoga's long-term damage to young bodies. Hogwash, counter instructors like Marita Gardner-Anopol, who teaches yoga at preschools and elementary schools in New Jersey. "Does ballet interfere with natural changes in the body? Skiing? Ice skating?" says Gardner-Anopol. "Come on. Children are active from the time they are three...