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...Early in the afternoon one day in the middle of October 1941, all the pilots were called together. There was a single chalkboard, covered with a white curtain, in the front of the room. An officer removed the curtain to reveal a map of Pearl Harbor. The officer said: "All of you are probably wondering what is going on. For the last four months, we've been doing quite different training. If we don't tell you why, it could affect your fighting spirit. Japan has been negotiating with the U.S. government patiently to maintain our position in East Asia...
...opened suitcase is on the right with white satin lingerie neatly laid on top. The bed on the left has already been turned down for the night. Today's newspaper is on the windowsill. The shower door is open and a pale silhouette is visible through the shower curtain...
...most of the scene ended up on the cutting-room floor, leaving only a bland three-minute sequence. The exhibit, though, delves into the art behind the scenes: Dalí's sketches of shots never filmed, eliminated story boards. Huge eyes - one of Hitchcock's fetishes - stare from a curtain recreated from the opening dream scene that stretches across the gallery. Object of Destruction, Man Ray's creation of a metro-nome with an eye pasted onto the pendulum, is copied four times in the dream scene; the original is on display here...
...other hand, although LiLi, MTV Asia's digitally animated video jockey, is a mere projection on the wall in a Singapore studio, I am flirting with her. And she's flirting back. And I'm trying to figure out what makes her tick. Is there someone behind a curtain orchestrating her every gesture? "No!" she insists, "I have my own mind and I'm my own boss!" She continues: "If I wanted to kiss you right now I could do so on my own free will." Score...
...Inside, more fans are lining up. Public relations is Tanaka's forte, and upon taking the governorship, he moved his office to a ground-floor room where he installed curtain-less plate-glass windows. Outside is a public lounge, with tables, chairs and vending machines. The public is allowed?more than that, they're encouraged?to come and watch Tanaka. Watch him do what? Work, ostensibly, at being Governor. But Tanaka spends most of his day working the crowd. "Politicians usually stay so far away from us," says 19-year-old Shinya Urayama, a college student from Tokyo...