Word: okamoto
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...distinctive look of this issue is the work of Sharon Okamoto and Jay Colton. The next issue of Visions 21 will focus on society and will appear early next year. Don't miss our newsmagazine show on CNN, which is doing a companion series of one-hour shows based on Visions 21. And, as always, we welcome your comments (and future questions) at time.com/v21...
...time when terrorist hijackings were common. Since little happens in Syrian-controlled Lebanon without the approval of Damascus, chances are the arrests were carried out with Syria's consent -- perhaps as a goodwill token from President Hafez Assad. Among the five Japanese and two Lebanese suspects arrested is Kozo Okamoto, who was sentenced to life in prison after the Lod bombing, but later released in a prisoner exchange between Israelis and Palestinians...
...ambivalence Marten feels about the controversial treatment is echoed by the other illustrators -- Anita Kunz, Roz Chast, Karen Barbour, Polly Becker and Sandra Dionisi -- whom associate art directors Sharon Okamoto and Janet Parker commissioned to interpret the topic for Time. "I think a lot about aging," says Kunz, 38. "It's such a youth-oriented culture." Chast, 40, who submitted the tongue-in-cheek cartoon titled The Picture of Doreen Gray, says the idea of an antiaging pill "gives me the creeps" but concedes that she may feel differently in 10 years...
...artists' enthusiasm impressed Okamoto, who designed the pages on which their works appear: "To approach six top women illustrators in one week and have them all say yes is pretty wonderful." The women, for their part, think it's pretty wonderful to get challenging work in what is still a male-dominated field. "Drawing for a living is a tough business for everybody," Chast says, but adds that the career does offer certain advantages for women because they can set their own hours, work from home and spend time with their children. (Chast...
...Kamikuishiki. A month later they noticed that the leaves on the trees near the cult's compound had suddenly turned brown. Shortly afterward the family living nearest the compound woke up with nausea and sore eyes. There was "a horrible smell, like burning plastic," said retired farmer Norie Okamoto, who informed the police. The cultists got off with a warning, and the villagers were furious, especially when the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper disclosed that police samples of the soil around the compound contained organic phosphorus compounds that are potential residues of sarin, matching residues in Matsumoto--and now those found...