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When an eccentric old Mongolian walked into the backyard of a laid-back American poet in 1987, neither imagined, surely, that they would one day be lurching through modern China in search of a teacher's grave. But Tsing Tsai proved to be no ordinary monk, poet and kung-fu master; and George Crane turned out to be a sympathetic Sancho Panza and inner Mongolian at heart. Written with the quick, vivid immediacy of an ancient Eastern poem, Bones beautifully recounts the recent heartbreaking history of Mongolia--and shows how spirit can get the better of even the deepest sorrow...
...dawn to go through the ghostly motions of Tai Chi, cranes are busy erecting the world's tallest building, to go with the tallest tower in Asia and the largest department store on the continent. In downtown Toronto, on a jam-packed sidewalk, a blue-robed Chinese monk is knocking clappers ceremoniously together. Amid all the promiscuous minglings of our mishmashed global order, the most confusing ones often arise not when cultures clash but when centuries do, with their different senses of time. The modern Everyplace is the wall of a luxury hotel, where clocks show seven different times...
...sell more alcohol, for others to drink more alcohol, and for still others to see if Anthrax really works as well as advertised. In fact, it's not even the year 2000. Our western calendar was concocted out of thin air by Dionysius Exiguus, a sixth-century Scythian monk, whose love of Jesus was eclipsed only by his inability to count accurately. Dionysius tried to estimate the date of his Savior's birth, and then tried to construct, on that foundation, a formal system of measuring time. Let's just say that mistakes were made...
...British. Coincidental or not, Driver's accent is a somewhat jarring reminder that Princess Mononoke has been altered for American audiences. Similarly, Jada Pinkett-Smith's distinctive voice sounds a little strange emerging from a Japanese prostitute turned iron-worker, and Billy Bob Thornton, as an oddly violent monk is almost too bizarre for belief...
DIED. MILT JACKSON, 76, jazz vibraphonist and improviser who co-founded the Modern Jazz Quartet; in New York City. Composer of the Quartet's signature Bags' Groove, Jackson got his start in Dizzy Gillespie's band and recorded with John Coltrane and Thelonius Monk...