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...shrunk to 13,000 people, with 40% of them 65 years old or over. In the 1980s and '90s town officials tried to stanch the economic decline by borrowing hundreds of millions to remake the city as a tourist destination, only to fail miserably-as Yubari's shuttered amusement park, melon museum and robot museum testify. After racking up over $500 million in debt-roughly 14 times the city's annual tax revenue-Yubari was forced to declare bankruptcy last summer, the first Japanese municipality to do so in 14 years. Late last year the city government announced a harsh...
...Gore for president. Forget about the economy, jobs and other people-centered issues. We need to save the earth first. Vince D'Souza Gladstone Park, Australia...
...These films are also giving new audiences access to the wider world of this maverick. The loudest soundtrack to Gittoes' current life is provided by the white cockatoos outside his coastal studio at Bundeena, in a national park just south of Sydney. Here his drawing desk-part of an old cabinet propped up on bricks-seems as improvised as his career. The son of an administrator and a ceramicist, Gittoes dropped out of law studies and, inspired by the visiting modernist art critic Clement Greenberg, traveled to New York in 1968. He studied with the social-realist painter Joe Delaney...
...language and is on aesthetic high ground, safe from criticism of low-brow unoriginality.Cusk’s words are so lovely that they make the tongue itch; it’s hard to resist the temptation to read all 248 pages out loud. The lush descriptions of Arlington Park and its residents seem to enter the transcendent realm of poetry.Unfortunately, eloquence does not in itself make a book engaging, and Cusk is perhaps a little too aware of her literary prowess. An otherwise minor descriptive line will stretch out into a paragraph, a paragraph into a page, a page...
...both exist in bubbles and set the benchmarks for our fields.New York City Fashion Week is a nine-day fashion binge featuring 221 designers, numerous celebrity sightings, and plenty of attitude. The semi-annual event previews designers’ fall lines in a series of giant tents in Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. For two days, we explored this unfamiliar fashion world. And for the record, we did sit next to Fabio during our first runway show.Feb. 2, 9:15 a.m. We enter the central tent, surrounded by impossibly tall PR women and the city?...