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Canon was started in 1937 by Chairman Takeshi Mitarai, a physician, who took the company name from Kannon, the Buddhist figure that represents mercy. The firm made the first advanced 35-mm camera produced in Japan in the 1930s and stayed with these relatively slow-selling models for decades. But after moving into calculators and copiers in the 1960s, Canon applied its electronics know-how to cameras and devised the breakthrough AE-1. The company followed up in 1979 with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam...
Occidental moviemakers perceive her as a fashion photographer (Eyes of Laura Mars) or a ratings-mad television executive (Network). But Tokyo Art Director Eiko Ishioka, casting around for a Japanese TV commercial, saw in Faye Dunaway something of Kannon Bosatsu, the Buddhist goddess of mercy. Rigged in sail-like goddess attire, the inscrutable pitchperson has no lines, but she kisses and caresses two tiny girls in a fetching commercial for a chain of boutiques, galleries and theaters that airs next month...
...Kannon and Roman...
...Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. O Ye Jigs and Juleps!, Hudson (4) 4. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (3) 5. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (7) 6. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner (6) 7. Veeck-as in Wreck, Veeck (9) 8. JFK Coloring Book, Kannon and Roman 9. One Man's Freedom, Williams (8) 10. The Blue Nile, Moorehead...
...think Messrs. Drucker and Kannon have carried our freedom of speech and press a bit too far with their J.F.K. Coloring Book...