Word: fuji
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...summer for $600, features the largest display screen around, a memory capable of holding 1,500 high-resolution images and, for an extra $100, wireless communication. But competition is intense, especially in photo printing, which is still where the money is. In film, Kodak had only two major competitors, Fuji Photo Film in Asia and Agfa-Gevaert in Europe. Now, both its old foes are in the printing market, as is the giant HP. And Sony and Canon aside, there are at least a dozen firms making digital cameras...
...reports from the South Korean and international press, North Korean generals were said to be defecting in droves; ubiquitous propaganda portraits of Kim were mysteriously disappearing from Pyongyang's public places; and fewer North Koreans traveling abroad were wearing lapel pins depicting Kim's visage. In an interview with Fuji Television, influential Japanese lawmaker Shinzo Abe underscored a general sense of foreboding when he urged his nation to dust off contingency plans for a destabilized North Korea. "I think we should consider the possibility that regime change could occur," he said...
...each walk in a different place, with emphasis placed on the weather, the changes of season, encounters with animals and brief, mostly silent exchanges with people. One sequence has the man engage in an unspoken race with a fellow perambulator; in another he climbs a small-scale Mt. Fuji replica. With few words spoken you must piece together the "story," such as it is, almost entirely from the visuals. In its emphasis on quiet, low-key activities and cutaways to environmental details, "The Walking Man" evokes the atmosphere of the films of Yasujiro Ozu ("Tokyo Story," "Early Spring...
...disregard for perspective (until it was introduced from the West in the early 18th century). Now, though, Japan's painters began to focus instead on portraying pleasure seekers. Elaborate, gold-drenched silken screens and scrolls depicted, for the first time, ordinary Japanese amusing themselves in beauty spots like Mount Fuji or inside a stately home. The exhibition's anonymous Entertainment in a Residence (1640-50) shows people making music, drinking, dancing, playing cards and reading letters amid golden clouds and elaborate foliage...
...woman get the chance to “go everywhere?” The pieces in My Kind of Place have a range of settings, from a Manhattan high school a few blocks from Orlean’s home to a trailer park in Portland, Oregon to, yes, Mt. Fuji, with a focus on the subcultures that flourish out of the common view...