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...Koetsu's work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, though respectably attended, has not been packing in the crowds. This is a boon for those who go to see it. The fewer people looking over your shoulder when you're looking at one of Koetsu's exquisite moments in ink, the better. It wouldn't be as private as this in a Japanese museum...
...reborn from the ashes of "barbarous" Gothic - so the Kyoto Renaissance strove to recall the spirit of the Japanese past, as far back as the Heian era (794-1185), especially in the domain of writing. It produced an intensely ?litist, nobly disciplined and masculine culture whose emblems were the ink brush, the samurai sword and the tea bowl...
...Square from around the country, but almost indiscernable from their high school friends. With their mohawks, piercings, brightly colored hair, leather and studs, the pit kids are hard to miss. But Harvard students routinely walk right by them as if all that attention-getting eyeliner were so much invisible ink...
...that's what this place is all about: Spin Row, where the ink- stained wretches wield sweet, if momentary, control over the professional flacks. Once, they may have shut us down. And tonight we pay them back...
...everywhere. The Melbourne Cup horse race day is an undeclared national holiday, and the Aussies bet on cards, numbers, events and animals like nobody's business. They did nothing to hide their gambling habit during the Games, which was fine with me. To the great pleasure of my ink-stained-wretch brethren and the chagrin if not horror of the International Olympic Committee, the Sydney organizing committee's welcoming press party was - get this! - an afternoon at Rosehill Racecourse. "Watch, bet and enjoy Australia's favourite sporting pastime," read the invite. "A selection of Australian food and drinks will...