Word: honda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inextricably into an eloquent statement of emptiness and silence. Now translated into English by Edward Seidensticker, The Decay of the Angel is the last volume of the tetralogy The Sea of Fertility, which Mishima regarded as his greatest work. The four-part narrative follows the experiences and reflections of Honda Shigekuni, from his days as a student in Part One to his near senility in Part Four...
...first book, Spring Snow, Honda develops a passionate friendship with another young man, Mitsugae Kiyoaki, who is courting a young woman of the aristocracy, Ayakura Satoko. Having become pregnant, Satoko finds refuge in a Buddhist abbey; Kiyoaki makes a desperate attempt to see her there, but succumbs to illness and dies...
...Honda has aged twenty years in the second volume, Runaway Horses. He is now a judge in the Court of Appeals. A young man named Isao is brought before him, accused of conspiring in a right-wing plot against the government. Honda resigns his position and successfully pleads the boy's defense, for he has seen a birthmark--three moles under the left armpit--that convinces him that the boy is a reincarnation of the dead Kiyoaki. Released from jail, the boy assassinates an important financial figure, and then commits harikiri alone...
...improbable easy rider. At San Clemente, the President's press secretary Ron Ziegler, 35, has abandoned his car and makes the 16-mile run between the Western White House and the Laguna Beach press headquarters by Honda CB-360. Ziegler, donning crash helmet and tennis shoes, leaps on the borrowed bike and threads his way through traffic more easily than he picks his way through reporters' questions. To show off his new skills, Ron even gave a demonstration to a posse of reporters on a back road, only to run out of gas and | wheeze to a halt...
...gallon. Added taxes were put on "luxury" goods, including imported beef as well as cameras and alcohol. The most unexpected and resented increase was the surtax on automobiles. Italy's 12 million automobile owners will now have to pay a one-time surtax ranging from $10 on a Honda to $50 on a family-size Fiat 124, to $400 on a Lamborghini and $575 on a Rolls-Royce. "We know well that we are asking heavy sacrifices of the Italians," Rumor told the public. Added Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo: "If there were not the courage for unpopular measures...