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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: All the Hazards and Threats of | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

FLICKING OUT

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Fine Tuning | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Of Time and the Falklands | 4/19/1982 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Messing With the Bard | 11/10/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Falcone (4 goals) and Olson (3) Boost Icemen, 7-3 | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

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