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...Sadly, if the past is any indication, these resolutions mostly won’t hold up. The T does cost $1, after all. Somehow, the good-for-you art at the MFA and overpriced boutiques on Newbury Street aren’t always sufficiently enticing draws. But perhaps Harvard folk are simply not looking in the right places. Some of Boston’s most exciting attractions aren’t on the beaten path. But they are on this tour: a unique and flavorful sampling of the city’s more obscure, more wonderful places for food, drink...
...became the first foreign firm to buy out a Japanese bank?Long-Term Credit Bank, the fifth largest in the country. Last year it snapped up the biggest share in?and effective control of?Nippon Columbia, the 92-year-old record label whose name is synonymous with enka (Japanese folk ballads). Then Ripplewood bought out Seagaia, a sprawling golf-and-beach resort on the southern island of Kyushu that plays host to Japan's best-known golf tournament. Ripplewood also purchased Niles Parts, an auto-parts maker...
...shoestring skills honed by 20 years of Hong Kong filmmaking did the rest. Doyle didn't pick up a camera until his late twenties, when he accompanied a musician friend on a 20-day trek around Taiwan to record folk songs: "He had a camera and I had the time." Without a visa and under the pseudonym Du Ke Feng ("like the wind"), he joined the news department of China Television, making documentaries for the Taiwanese version of 60 Minutes. Then, director friend Edward Yang invited Doyle to work on his feature debut That Day, On the Beach...
...kindly and ornery, childlike and cynical, flirty and stern. The camera lingers over small details: as one man bemoans his political passivity, his kettle boils furiously. Jensen is an ennobler who cushions and elevates moments of personal vulnerability with footage of the whole choir performing its hymns and folk songs. "Every man is holy," he says. "Every man is unique...
Stylistically, Lu originally rejected traditional Chinese sculpture and pursued a career of sculpting in a more Western style. From this experience, he published a book in Chinese, The Western Contemporary Sculpture. However, deciding that this style was too limiting, he began to derive his influences from Chinese folk stories and traditions, even the Great Wall, although a strong contemporary Western influence remains in his work...