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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Some three months after arriving in Tokyo to study the Japanese language and culture, an Englishman in his mid 20s happens upon a restaurant where he thinks he can find some pizza and beer. After checking his coat, he is horrified to be presented with a cloakroom tab for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Sun and Shady Nights | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

He records the behavior of some Japanese friends in a Tokyo cabaret, how they "sat down with the hostesses they had been assigned and almost at once reached out for their breasts as nonchalantly as they helped themselves to fruit on the table." He observes the clownish scenes that take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rising Sun and Shady Nights | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Diana McLellan, who built quite a career on high-level gossip (she wrote "The Ear" column for the Washington Star and the Washington Post and then "Diana Hears" for the Washington Times), has quit after a decade of nibbling her way to the top. "Gossip is now on the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Affluence in Pursuit of Influence | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

Smith is interested in her plot, but she is fascinated by her people. Not judging, just watching in an amiable way, she gives us Sybill, prim, quivering with repression, afraid that the hypnotist is a fake, terrified that he is not. She shows us another daughter, a hairdresser named Candy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: This Old House FAMILY LINEN by Lee Smith | 4/18/2005 | See Source »

"Maybe we're not supposed to sleep so well," says a character in Doubt. To be sure, this off-Broadway hit that has just moved to Broadway (nabbing a Pulitzer Prize along the way) never lets us rest comfortably with our preconceptions. An imperious nun (Cherry Jones) hears suspicions that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: 4 Must-See Shows On (and Off) Broadway | 4/17/2005 | See Source »

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