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...timing was perfect. The uke, inexpensive and easy to learn, had become the prime accessory for jazz agers. Hits like Ukulele Lady, Hula Lou and My Little Grass Shack in Kealakekua made the Hawaiian sound, in its perky pop mutation, the hottest "world music" of its time. Nawahi, a showman as much as an artist, aimed to please. He could run through Kitten on the Keys at warp speed, or play Turkey in the Straw on the steel guitar using his foot as the steel...
...since the war would be over in a week. For me, the Korean War began in my backyard. Before becoming a TIME correspondent, I was with the American embassy in Seoul, and on Sunday morning of June 25, 1950, I'd been trying to get a patch of grass growing outside the Japanese-style house where I lived with my wife and three small children when a breakfast-time call came to get in to the office quickly. By midafternoon, trucks loaded with South Korean soldiers holding branches over their heads, as if those sprigs could camouflage them from enemy...
Then disaster struck. It was Saturday morning. I decided to take the dog and my two-year-old to the park--a big mistake, since they both need to be held. At some point, one of them kicked off the Digi-Walker somewhere in the tall grass. I called the folks at New Lifestyles, who told me that losing one's Digi-Walker is such a common problem that they're going to introduce a model that comes in tennis-ball yellow. I can't wait. I've probably logged 20,000 steps just looking for mine...
...Farragut Square, I heard the couriers before I saw them. It was a boisterous laugh: Five couriers gathered, their bikes resting in the grass, joking about a day well spent. D.C. interns have a culture of their own; as a media person I am somewhat off the intern routine, but I see them enough to describe it well. Interns dress for their congressional offices in the uncomfortable and eternally vague "business attire." Interns put in long days of answering phones and doing research for higher-ups who are accustomed to both dressing well and being able to ask someone...
Mugezi's uncanny omniscience takes some getting used to, but the effort is worth making. Isegawa's method of portraying a broad swath of national history through the wise eyes of a young observer has its precedent in such reality-bending epics as Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum and Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children. Mugezi and all the members of his extended family play out, in microcosm, the upheavals of postcolonial Africa: the diaspora from stable rural societies into hectic cities governed by money rather than loyalties. Mugezi learns that he must be devious and tough simply...