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That world is full of dangers. Charles VIII of France is preparing to march on the city. The fanatical monk Savonarola is raging from the pulpit against lust and luxury. His religious police, a kind of Christian Taliban, will soon be enforcing godliness with a cudgel, punishing sodomists and chasing women indoors. The turmoil outside interests Alessandra, but what really absorbs her is the young painter her father has brought from Northern Europe to decorate the family chapel. For a while you wonder if this mysterious stranger will somehow turn out to be Albrecht Durer, who ventured to Italy--though...
...After retiring from public life and entering the Zen Buddhist order as a monk, Yoshimasa freely indulged his passions for architecture, gardening, literature and fine art. Early in his reign, he gained notoriety for building lavish palaces, even during times of terrible hardship for most of his people; in retirement, he turned to a more discreet, muted style. The highest expression of this restrained aesthetic was the Silver Pavilion, a superbly balanced temple made entirely of wood and paper at Yoshimasa's place of retreat in the Higashiyama district of Kyoto. Architectural historians consider the Ginkaku...
CRIMES OF PASSION Rough sex for many species can range from brutal love bites to lethal lust. Male dung flies, mountain sheep and some frogs, in their zeal to procreate, will swarm, harass and harm females, sometimes fatally. For Hawaiian monk seals, where males outnumber females 3 to 1, mating violence is so serious that biologists are worried that the species may be endangered...
...trip was pretty relaxed,” according to Hamden. Adolphson gave the students free rein to enjoy Kyoto at night—within reason, of course. The only rule was “if you go out late, don’t wake up the monk,” recalls Hamden...
...This is a real Eastern Western: grizzled heroes enacting blood feuds in a gloriously forlorn landscape?the Taklimakan Desert?where the men ride camels as well as horses. Our outlaw hero has a familiar cohort of misfits: sassy kid, young woman, saintly monk and an old man with one last battle in him. I don't know if you can drawl in Mandarin, but Jiang Wen is sure-as-shootin' John Wayne, the gruff leader who tells his supporting-actor pals, "I don't want to turn your wives into widows," and rides off alone. (Of course they follow...