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...With reporting by Maya Curry, Marti Covington and Michael Scherer / Washington...
...ever imagine that Hello Kitty would be big worldwide? Maya Castro, Miami No, not at all. When I started I didn't even know whether she would sell in Japan. I was told that Hello Kitty was only for children and that Westerners wouldn't carry her around...
...Born in Sumatra, Sudjojono went to school in Bandung. According to his daughter Maya, he trained for several years under a Japanese artist, who was likely an officer in the World War II army of occupation. Otherwise he earned a precarious living through school teaching...
...Rose today. But Sudjojono refused to comply, and in 1958 quit the PKI and his parliamentary post. He married Rose the following year. It was a painful decision, as his parliamentary salary disappeared, along with government patronage for his art. "We didn't have a lot of money," recalls Maya, who says most of the family's income came from her mother's piano lessons and singing (Rose was a mezzo-soprano who frequently performed on national radio...
...trash-choked alleys shaking with the distant drumming and singing of nine women rehearsing for an upcoming show. Dressed in brightly colored saris, they sit cross-legged in a small room thumping on giant hand drums while their lilting voices croon Rajasthani folk songs. Elsewhere, 16-year-old acrobat Maya Pawar practices balancing a bottle on her forehead, while touching her foot to the back of her head. Scars on her stomach mark the time she was run over by a bus as a little girl, while chasing money thrown into the street by an audience member...