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...Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom. DIED. HIROSHI TESHIGAHARA, 74, Japanese film director and artist; in Tokyo. Teshigahara is best known abroad for directing the Oscar-nominated Woman in the Dunes, but he was also a calligrapher,ceramicist and headmaster of the Sogetsu School of Ikebana, the renowned flower-arranging academy his father founded in 1927. FILED FOR DIVORCE. JANEFONDA, 63, from TED TURNER, 62, after 10 years of marriage, citing differences arising from herconversion to Christianity; inAtlanta. The billionaire cnn founder and the actress-cum-fitness guru separated last year but claimed commitment to the "long-term success...
...having invented the novel. Lady Murasaki's Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari), written some 600 years before Don Quixote, is a weirdly fascinating narrative of erotic and court intrigue. For Western readers it can only reinforce the image of Japan as, in Yukio Mishima's words, "a nation of flower arrangers...
When I was living in Kyoto in the late '70s, Yasunari Kawabata was the most popular novelist among the American expatriates who were seeking a vision of a Japan untainted by foreign culture. Kawabata's aristocratic aesthetes, tea masters and geishas are the epitome of Flower Arranging Nation and some of his novels, to Western eyes, are more a series of beautiful tableaux than novels - too precious by half. His greatest works like Snow Country and House of Sleeping Beauties are haunting; more than any other Japanese author, Kawabata satisfies our appetite for strangeness and exoticism. Kawabata himself created...
...Losers JESSE JACKSON Bush administration declines J.J.'s request to solve the Hainan incident with "religious diplomacy." Beijing kowtows in gratitude ELTON JOHN Shopaholic pop star loses multimillion dollar lawsuit against his former accountant and ex-manager. Time to slash the fresh flower budget? STEVE BUSCEMI Fargo star gets stabbed during a North Carolina bar brawl. Intense method actor vows to use his injuries to fuel rage-filled indy film performances...
DIED. NYREE DAWN PORTER, 61, British actress who won fame in the late 1960s as Irene in the 26-part BBC adaptation of John Galsworthy's Forsyte Saga; in London. Born in New Zealand, she was given the Maori name Ngaire ("heart-shaped flower"), pronounced...