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...least in its early stages - was not shaped by Japanese literature, but by the secondhand foreign paperbacks he read growing up near the port of Kobe, and the jazz and rock he absorbed as a student in Tokyo. Long before his self-imposed exile overseas, to avoid the crush of his celebrity in Japan, Murakami was an expatriate in his mind. "His work referenced not classic Japanese culture but pop culture, mainly from the U.S.," says Motoyuki Shibata, a professor of American literature at Tokyo University who has known Murakami for years. "He could create great literature with...
...musical is unabashedly heteronormative—mostly likely a product of its pre-21st century datedness than its politics—it does accurately caricature the often hilarious situations involved in searching for, sustaining, or losing love. Anyone who’s ever had so much as an unrequited crush can enjoy...
...Navy had certainly not trained the sailors for this. Somehow they managed to keep their footing and continue dropping candy from above. But that was the limit of their influence. The children surged around them. In the crush, some of the shorter kids were pushed to the ground...
...virtually deaf for the next four days and relations with the neighbors were, for a few days, delicate. But the summer concert spirit of carefree irreverence and youthful dereliction survived. We successfully instilled in the children an appreciation for punk music and misbehaving, and from the cruel crush of core requirements, adulthood, and the appropriately fleshed-out tankini, I would happily continue to run and hide...
MOSCOW—Lowell House's new bells got quite a send-off on Tuesday as the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated them at a ceremony attended by the Moscow mayor, a crush of news media, and hundreds of believers...