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...went to the movies once and saw a film and then if they wanted to revisit the film and enter that world again, they played about it," says Linn. Now, instead of recreating Snow White's world in their heads, kids pop in the DVD and mouth along to "Magic Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?" over and over again. Media-linked toys aren't just making it hard for kids to learn to play creatively, they're making it hard for them to grow into interesting adults. That has ramifications toy companies and movie...
...Kafka on the Shore, 2002 One of Murakami's most complex novels, Kafka blends Western myth, Japanese magic and religious concerns - rarely touched upon in earlier books...
...exquisite corpse was a parlor game played by the Surrealists, those convention-spurning artists, writers and pranksters who flourished in 1920s Paris. Its objective: to uncover the magic of accident. One person would write the opening of a sentence, fold the paper to conceal part of it, pass it to a companion for continuation, and so on around the table. The first attempt contained the nonsense phrase "exquisite corpse," and the name stuck...
...book was imagined as a place of discovery and dialogue between cultures," says Guy Walter, director of Lyons' government-subsidized Villa Gillet cultural center and one of the editors of As You Were Saying. "When authors decide to play this kind of game, there is always something unexpected, something magical about it." If magic is what Walter and his colleagues are after, then here's a tip: next time, conceal part of the original stories before passing them along. It worked for the Surrealists...
...identify "weekend tourists." For now, that watchful but tolerant approach is getting the endorsement of Dutch public heath experts. Unless the new research commissioned by the minister arrives at new insights, the government appears more likely to play the regulation card than to support a total ban on magic mushrooms...