Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...while Jiang said throughout his speech that his country was well on its way to becoming a "modern democratic nation" whose socialist democracy would allow it to "ensure the full exercise of the rights of people," Jiang did not completely abandon the party line...
Perhaps. But even the animal fringe has a fringe. Take--with as many grains of salt as you wish--the animal communicators. Like modern-day Dr. Dolittles, these visionaries have long talks with animal companions, often over the telephone, to plumb the depths of their presumably troubled psyches. A 30-min. consultation might reveal that an aging horse is worried about being sent to the glue factory or that a dog feels overburdened by having to bear all his master's secrets in silence. Typical cost: $35 a session. And they say psychotherapy is a dying...
...aground--a sort of art-ark. "To be at the bend of a working river intersected by a large bridge," Gehry wrote at an early stage of the design, "and connecting the urban fabric of a fairly dense city to the river's edge with a place for modern art is my idea of heaven...
...their very different ways, each of the Big Three of modern Japanese literature--Yukio Mishima, Yasunari Kawabata and Junichiro Tanizaki--devoted himself to commemorating aspects of an older, purer Japan they all felt would wither after their country's defeat in World War II. That left their postwar successors, most notably Haruki Murakami, to record the ghosts and vacant lots of a land whose spirit seemed to have vanished, leaving a soulless, synthetic wasteland of Dunkin' Donuts parlors, automated fashion victims and cinder-block abortion clinics...
...surreal life fades into waking dream (brilliantly translated into the latest vernacular by Jay Rubin), Murakami delivers a synoptic reading of all the ills of modern Japan, from crooked real estate deals to two-dimensional media men to a wonderfully true, Sprite-drinking 16-year-old girl who works in a rural wig factory. And as Okada floats through his planless days, he experiences every postmodern malady, from unwanted phone-sex calls to--the ultimate heartbreak--an E-mail "conversation" with his lost wife. These contemporary scenes of listlessness and drift are thrown into the strongest relief by gripping, graphic...