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...little urchin sits perched in a tree while majestic Mount Fuji soars incongruously in the distance. Under Hokusai's brush, Japan emerges as more than a floating land of stylized ritual: he had learned the secret he did not expect to know until he was no, when "every dot and every line from my brush will be alive...
...turn headlines into hits. He has written remarkably tasteless salutes to the memories of Amelia Earhart, Floyd Collins and Emmett Till, and he still cannot understand why a ballad about Evangelist Billy Graham prompted threats of a lawsuit (sample lyrics: "To the hills of North Carolina/ Where the Smokies dot the land/ God sent a new boy baby/ And he called him Billy Graham"). Fourteen years ago, McEnery also achieved some slight notoriety by handcuffing himself to a piano and writing 52 original songs in eight hours without getting up. When the plight of Pilot Powers swam into McEnery...
...minutes away from the traditional downtown "core" shopping area of Portland, Lloyd Center is a consumer's cornucopia. Its more than 100 retail stores are carefully clustered in competing groups (e.g., hardware, dresses) so that bargain hunters can save shoe leather. The sculpture and mobiles of Northwestern artists dot the landscape, and no flashy advertising or jutting store signs are permitted. Lloyd's has an ice-skating rink with live music, professional offices, seven restaurants, is dominated by the new 300-room Sheraton-Portland Hotel...
Itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka-dot bikini...
...only a blurred dot on a photographic plate. But as displayed last week by Astronomer Rudolph Minkowski of California's Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories, it was a scientific milestone: the dot, probably the collision of two galaxies 6 billion light years away from earth, represented the most distant phenomenon ever identified...