Word: okada
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Flowing easily through a series of hauntingly imagined passages, the story is told by Toru Okada, a guy in his 30s, out of a job, cheerfully bewildered and wandering around in a "yellow Van Halen promotional T-shirt." One day, as he's cooking spaghetti, his life suddenly falls through a rabbit hole of sorts. Spooky strangers call up with cryptic messages, women named Nutmeg and Malta enfold him in weird schemes, his wife disappears, and another woman appears in her clothes and in his bed. Reality plays like a TV program--but one showing on a channel Toru doesn...
BORN: Sept. 17, 1941, Sacramento EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, A.B., 1963; J.D., 1966 FAMILY: Wife, Doris Okada; one child RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: Sacramento City Council, 1971-78; U.S. House 1978- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1347, Sacramento...
DIED. EIJI OKADA, 75, Japanese screen actor admired around the world for his roles as an architect in the French film Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), a head of state in the U.S. drama The Ugly American (1963) and an insect collector in the Japanese classic Woman in the Dunes (1964); in Tokyo...
...primitve, and there are almost no magazines available online, subscribers to NIFTY-Serve and PC Van, the two largest online services, now total 1.7 million, up 42% from a year earlier. Online forums, where groups of people can exchange ideas and comments, are especially popular. Says Tomoo Okada, NIFTY's president: ``Many Japanese are shy in face-to-face conversation. But they seem to derive confidence from the anonymity of online forums and E-mail...