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...pieces, but they mix now with scenes of spiritual questing and transcendence, all performed with the erotic austerity of some deep sense memory. The style of buto now performed by Sankai Juku is an exercise in selective simplicity, like a piece of wood planed and smoothed so only the knot in the center remains...
...instance, and who ask for your help. If you hesitate in the simple giving a Russian friend a book, because know that you are technically breaking an oppressive Soviet law, you feel inquiry unworthy of your own belief in free inquiry. And if you go ahead, you feel a knot of tension. David K. Shipler Russia: Brok 1 Idols,Solemn Dreams...
...number of intersections along about dawn nearly every day, a knot of Mexicans forms. They are in the country illegally and, to them, getting rich tomorrow means hooking a job for as much as 20 bucks. Locally these pockets are called "slave markets." You want your lawn mowed, some boscage trimmed; you drive by, wave a bill, they hop in. They are industrious, trustworthy, and at night they melt back into an area known to all as East Los Angeles, although it is an area much larger than the 7.4 sq. mi. the city defines as East Los Angeles...
...from American blood, returning veterans remember the deafening roar of battle, the smoke and confusion. All they can hear now is the lap of a low surf, the keening of seagulls and occasionally the shouts of children playing on the beach. The puzzle is how to connect the remembered knot of constant fear, the moments of horror and exhilaration in combat, with the tranquil landscape beyond the beach. It is a vision by Edvard Munch imposed on a romantic painting from la Belle Epoque. Some of the veterans, now mainly in their 60s, simply sit down on the beach...
...more amicable ties established by Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter. In his first two years in office, Reagan neglected the People's Republic and boosted arms sales to Taiwan, despite a 1982 promise by the U.S. not to do so. Taiwan, Deng warned Reagan last week, remains a "knot" in Sino-American relations...