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...even though she is undemonstrative about sex, is really avid for it. Papa adopts a program that may well offend readers who have never before thought of themselves as prim. He takes to French brandy and encourages his wife to get drunk with him. What is more, he encourages Kimura, a young friend of his marriageable daughter, to join them. When Ikuko succumbs to brandy and occasional fainting fits, Papa takes her to bed, throws powerful lights on her nude body, and photographs her in unconventional poses. To the young friend he allots the task of developing the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quadrangle | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

What happens is just what the husband expected. Young Kimura becomes interested in the wife and she in him. This in turn makes Papa jealous to the point where he performs sexual feats that astonish even his wife. The daughter, of course, catches on soon enough, and by now her jealousy of her mother has made them enemies. When the mother begins to rendezvous with her daughter's young man, the four are catastrophically enmeshed in feelings of lust, outrage and jealousy that swiftly reach a point of no return...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Quadrangle | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Cain and Abel in the primeval jungle of human conscience. Quicksand sucks down the American; the Japanese hauls him out. When gangrene threatens the Japanese, the American pours his only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play on Broadway, Apr. 20, 1959 | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...extremely fine dust. The explosion on March 1, 1954 behaved differently because it was a "tower shot" that stirred up millions of tons of quick-settling coral dust. First radioactive material from the May 21 explosion was brought home by the tuna boat Stiruga Maru. Analyzed by Dr. Kenjiro Kimura of Tokyo University, it proved to contain a familiar array of fission products-ruthenium, rhodium, tellurium, iodine, cerium, neodymium, etc.-as well as uranium 237 and neptunium 239. This combination of elements indicated that the explosion was the "fission-fusion-fission" type, which gets much of its energy from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Measuring the H-Bomb | 7/2/1956 | See Source »

...deference to lingering fears of reviving militarism, Japan's top defense leadership is civilian. Frail, old (68 years) Tokutaro Kimura, the overall defense boss, is a lawyer. On all major decisions, he must consult an eight-man Defense Council of civilians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Army, Navy & Air Power | 7/12/1954 | See Source »

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