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...bottom -- indicates suehirogari, or increasing prosperity. So does Mount Fuji, whose graceful slopes mirror the character. To observe the once-in-a-century day, nearly 1,000 Japanese climbers gathered at the top of Fuji in the early-morning hours of the 8th. They erected a cairn at the crest with 216 stones collected from mountains whose names include the word fuji, such as Kofuji or Rishirifuji. At 8:08 the last stone was placed by an eight-year-old boy, Akinori Yasuda. His birthday...
...person's brain. Wolfe, then in his early 30s, could not get enough of this potent elixir--something new, something different--and so his first essays were published. Sure, writing like it had been seen before, but never with such punch, such pizazz, such daring. Wolfe arrived on the crest of a wave, a wave that never fell but just kept going up and up and up. He was New Journalism, and New Journalism was rapidly replacing The Novel...
With its purloined letters, incestuous jealousies and galloping neuroses, A Time of Destiny spins enough plot for a year of Falcon Crest, then filches its climax from Hitchcock's Vertigo and Saboteur. So how come nothing works? Maybe because this family farrago is played for keeps, instead of for the laughs it accidentally evokes...
...produced the hairy tube of "Crest" and waved it in fury, as the crowd gasped in shock. They all firmly denied any involvement, and two years later, after I was finally released from the mental hospital into which I was imprisoned for no good reason, I returned to school to finish my education...
...timing of when these waves will bottom or crest depends very much on astrology," says Sexton, "which is simply the science of understanding the nature of time, since our sense of time depends on the relationship of the earth to the sun and moon. We are getting very close to the end of the primary wave-three rally, which has been in effect since July 1984. Then we will have a primary-wave correction, which will take eight months, representing a decline of 400 to 600 points...