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Outside the Ryoanji temple, the newest Japanese surfaces shine. The taxi drivers bustle, sweeping huge feather dusters over their cars, flicking specks from the bright metal. The ritual, a writer once remarked, makes them look like chambermaids in the first act of a French farce. But it is utterly Japanese...
FLICKING OUT
The Falklands crisis blew up weirdly-out of nowhere, it seemed, or out of another century. It was a little too dangerous to remain as diverting as it seemed at first. Still, people mentioned The Mouse That Roared. The sheer oddness of it jarred the imagination. Just as the late...
Worse, when Hamlet begins his "To Be" soliloquy, he is sitting in total darkness (and nightclothes) on the edge of the stage, a cigarette lighter in hand. "To be?" he asks, flicking on the lighter, "or," flicking it off, "not," flicking it on again, "to be?" Too much, even though...
Falcone sent Harvard into the lead for good at 12:03, taking a beautiful centering pass from Burke and flicking the puck off Good win and into the net. Olson added an insurance tally exactly three minutes later, when he caught an errant Litchfield slapshot behind the net, skated up...