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...with 100 other passengers may not be your idea of a quiet time, but the nice thing about cruises on the Orient Express' Road to Mandalay in Burma is that they include many side trips, so you can escape most of the crowd if you want to. Guided pagoda tours, market hopping and a train ride into the Kachin jungle are among the offerings. Alternatively, while the other guests are on excursions, you can simply sit on a deck chair, cocktail in hand, and take in the stunning riverscape. The four-night cruise to Mandalay and Bagan costs about...
...enhanced by an equally tasteful gallery design that highlights the photography in simple, restrained elegance. This moderation is especially commendable in light of the Peabody’s previous photography exhibit, “Reconfiguring Korea,” which turned the museum gallery into a lime-green pagoda for seven months earlier this year. Instead, Exhibit Designer Sam Tager and Bubriski provide informative placards and Gardner quotations without cluttering the gallery or distracting from the photographs.Rockefeller’s photographs provide a refreshing antidote to the walls of the Fogg Museum, which are sadly bare of photography.Along with...
...resisted sightseeing, spending just seven minutes touring the Kremlin, for instance. But last week his itinerary bristled with excursions outside official halls. The stops had a theme: he made a series of leisurely visits to religious sites, including a gold-leafed Buddhist temple in Japan and an ancient Korean pagoda. White House officials tell TIME that the National Security Council included those stops so Bush could show an appreciation for Asian culture and give the U.S. a calling card besides troop requests and military bases...
Rising Sun & Beatle Blood. The most celebrated Push Pin alumnus is Peter Max, 28, a walrus-mustached native of Berlin. Max likes to explain that his flair for star-crossed psychedelic patterns was instilled during his boyhood days in Shanghai, where he watched Buddhist monks painting at a nearby pagoda. Max's designs, exploited through corporate tie-ups with half a dozen companies including General Electric, and emblazoned on posters, cups, plates, decals, and medallions, make him the grooviest thing going. He zaps about Manhattan with his blonde, beret-crowned wife in a decal-covered 1952 Rolls-Royce with...
...Vietnamese are getting the chance to reacquaint themselves with Nhat Hanh. After the fall of Saigon in 1975, the victorious communists folded all Buddhist sects into one state-controlled church, and monks who wouldn't submit were placed under pagoda arrest. Nhat Hanh's writings were seized by the authorities, and the monk was unable to get a visa to return to his homeland for nearly 30 years. After more than a year of negotiations, Hanoi allowed him and 200 followers to come back for four months of touring and teaching. (The government also allowed four of his books...