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This time of year in Japan, sake drinking becomes a national pursuit. As the ubiquitous cherry blossoms briefly turn the country pink, clusters of friends and relatives converge to claim squares of picnic space beneath the trees. They admire the blooms, sing songs and devour delicacies, but mostly they get uproariously drunk on cup after cup of sake...
...SUVs is only one of many ways we devour power. Why don't we have a campaign against overly air-conditioned cinemas or those pricey double-wide refrigerators (many of which chill a nice bottle of Riesling and not much else)? Arianna Huffington, the columnist who helped start the Detroit Project--the group with the ads saying SUVs support terrorism--says that whenever she is invited to a swank gala, she has a chauffeur take the wheel of her gas-sipping Toyota Prius. We weren't rude enough to ask how heavy her chauffeur is, but his extra body weight...
...England the bubble's already about to burst," he says, even as he oversees Pop Idol's second British series, a global rollout in China, Norway and other countries, and a set of new reality-TV shows planned with ABC and Fox. His solution is for the format to devour itself. "The clever thing," he says, "is to take it and parody...
...dark vision of China in The Crazed is that "of an old hag so decrepit and brainsick that she would devour her children to sustain herself." As Jin sees it, the Chinese are walled in on all sides: the intellectuals by a culture of falsehood, the students by tanks and troops, the peasants by their relentless poverty and everyone by paralyzing fear. In Waiting, Jin explored the emotional cost of enduring within those walls, but in The Crazed the pressure is simply too much. The dream of so many can be deferred no longer. Like a stroke, the only...
...woman men want to possess, adore. She is also Vietnam in all its luscious beauty?a precious fruit the West has to get its hands on, to devour and defile. In The Quiet American, Phuong is as much metaphor as flesh. Yet the actress playing her must evoke the humanity and the hurt within a succulent love object. That is the sweet surprise of Do Thi Hai Yen's performance. With a smile that suggests duress and glances that murmur reproach, Yen speaks for Vietnam. "She suffers much," Yen says of Phuong, "but she keeps her character...