Word: mory
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Although her government recaptured the offensive last week in a nasty parliamentary squabble over the sinking of the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano during the 1982 Falklands war, questions linger about the timing and motives behind the attack. The latest survey by Britain's respected MORI poll puts the Labor Party even with the Conservatives at 37%, the Tories' lowest ebb in three years...
Yamamoto, 39, spent a little time in Paris during the late 1960s, absorbing European influences and watching the growing impact of his countryman Kenzo Takada, 43, on the insular enclave of French fashion. The whimsically heretical Kenzo and the silkenly elegant haute couturière Hanae Mori, 57, were the first Japanese designers to have any visibility or impact outside their own country, and both had to leave home and establish bases of operation in Paris or New York City to do it. Japanese fashion was not a force then. It was really more like a curiosity, and Yamamoto returned...
...Western music is primarily popular today with the younger people," says Tadashi Mori, permanent conductor of the NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Symphony and a professor at the Toho Gakuen School of Music. "The young people were crazy about rock when the Beatles were popular. Now they go to the classics." But not always just to hear the music. Says Syuji Fujii, chief director of the music division at NHK: "Music is used to make friends, to get a wife. These are just temporary music lovers...
LIKE A momento mori bared amidst a medieval feast, the Harvard-Radcliffe Summer Theatre's production of Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra horrifies while it captivates, an anomaly in a world of frothy fun and glitter. And like that sobering skull, the play, staged as it is in late July, reminds us that--both literally and figuratively--glorious summer will quickly fade to autumn and winter. O'Neill lets us know that even while comedy and music, sunshine and song still cast their spell, death and decay lurk inevitably in the shadows. They need simply wait...
...percentage points to Alliance support if he were the coalition's head instead of the soft-edged, florid Roy Jenkins, the Social Democratic Party's leader. So Alliance politicians decided to put Steel in the forefront for the remainder of the campaign. Steel, 45, was rated by MORI as the candidate who has most impressed British voters during the campaign. Even so, the Alliance will probably not displace Labor as the official opposition, because Britain's electoral system favors the two established parties...