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...make style out of life," Miyake says, "not style out of style." The roots of that life are beautifully revealed in a series of candid photos put together almost like a jump-cut documentary on Tokyo street life, showing everyone from a roadworker wearing rubberized rain gear to a peddler, a Buddhist monk and a junk collector...
...heavily armed U.S. marshals waiting last week outside the gates of Porn Peddler Larry Flynt's Bel-Air, Calif., mansion were taking no chances. Flynt, 41, who had been paralyzed by a would-be assassin's bullet, had been quoted as saying he would shoot anyone who came to get him "right between the eyes." But this time, at least, he was not true to his word. "If any of you want to know if this is a publicity gimmick, yes, it is," he told reporters, "and thank God you all fell for it." Then, wearing a LARRY...
Guilty or not, justly or not, Nicola Sacco, clean-shaven factory worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, mustachioed fish-peddler, were informed last Monday evening that they must die that midnight for the murders-which to the end they denied committing-of a paymaster and guard at South Braintree, Mass...
Tora-San is a peddler who hawks his wares at local fairs around the country. He spends the rest of his time with relatives who run a sweet shop in Tokyo's working-class Shibamata district and do little else but eat noodles, prepare to eat noodles or sit around the noodle table. He almost always wears the same outfit, a double-breasted check suit flapping open without a tie, and a green hat. He is a boor, and he treats his long-suffering family like servants. But the Japanese, who know all about pearl fishing, believe that beneath...
...best seen as a canny survivor's notice of current determination and future availability. It would be pleasant to think that what Bartel did for love could be redeemed for money, and a chance next time to make it his way a bigger way. Like the Old Dope Peddler in Tom Lehrer's song, Bartel should do well by doing good. -By Richard Corliss