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...another level, Erwitt's work often depicts connections, some obvious and others apparent only on close inspection. A photograph in Kyoto, Japan in 1977, for example, illustrates a parallelism between people and animals. It depicts a woman scratching her back as a dog does the same. In a 1975 photograph taken at Daytona Beach, Florida, the connection is not so obvious. Erwitt juxtaposes shapes to create compositions that are not readily apparent as real objects. However, detailed study of the photograph reveals a subtle relationship between the shape of apartment facades and a bird perched upon a street lamp...
Another church-affiliated institution, Phillips University in Enid, Okla. (enrollment: 960), was approached last spring by Kyoto Institute of Technology, which offered $24 million for the entire school. Phillips' president, Robert Peck, refused. "Colleges are not bought and sold," he says. "We're not Quaker Oats." But he was under intense pressure to accept the offer from Enid's town fathers, who in March 1988 paid $14.3 million to keep the campus afloat, and now charge the university rent. As a compromise, Peck let Kyoto underwrite a summer program for up to 50 Japanese students...
...monk's cell in a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, is not your ordinary writer's retreat. But then TIME Contributor Pico Iyer is not your ordinary writer. For one thing, he travels a lot. For the past eight months he has used Kyoto -- either the temple or a tiny apartment in the ancient city -- as a base camp for his forays around Japan and into the Himalayas. Iyer's trips have provided grist for a book in progress and recent TIME stories on the Dalai Lama and Tokyo Disneyland. "I try to catch the inner stirrings...
...years later, Iyer took a leave of absence from TIME to explore Asia in greater depth. That trip resulted in Video Night, a series of lively meditations on the blending of Eastern and Western culture overseas. He became a contributor in 1986, and is now spending a year in Kyoto. His second book, he declares, will be an introspective work "about staying in one place; about discovering roots and angling for depths. It will be a travel book about an inner adventure." This summer and fall he intends to spend time in London, Southeast Asia, Seoul (for the Olympics...
...will be led by one of the native Taiwanese, who make up 80% of the total population of 20 million. Lee, 65, was born to a family of rice and tea farmers on the island's north coast. A devout Presbyterian who speaks English fluently, he was educated in Kyoto, Japan, and earned a Ph.D. in agricultural economics from Cornell in 1968. Lee joined the Cabinet as a Minister Without Portfolio in 1972 and later served as Taipei mayor and Taiwan province governor. The new President has no political base, however, and may wind up effectively sharing power with Premier...