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...stage, produced, directed and acted in movies. Often called "Japan's Hemingway" because of his love for physical contest and the outdoor life, he lifted weights and became proficient at karate and kendo, the ancient swordfighting game once practiced by the samurai warriors. He was a perfectionist, a man of overriding obsessions. One of these obsessions was with his own death...
...entirely fair to hold Lowry responsible for a novel he neither completed nor published. It is unlikely, though, that given more time and health he would have been able to curb his compulsion for occulturation or tailored his ambition to fit his talents. He was a comr pulsive perfectionist, gifted with the vision to perceive paradise but unable to get his eyes off his own private hells. At his best, Lowry was sporadically brilliant, but reading him is too often like watching a man who has exceeded his capacity try to get home without stepping on the cracks...
...attitudes now betrayed by "spinster" and "bachelor." Lesbians or homosexuals will no longer be denied legally binding marriages, complete with mutual-support agreements and inheritance rights. Paradoxically, the number of homosexuals may get smaller. With fewer overpossessive mothers and fewer fathers who hold up an impossibly cruel or perfectionist idea of manhood, boys will be less likely to be denied or reject their identity as males...
Tall and lean (5 ft. 11 in., 165 Ibs.), Eddy estimates that he pedals some 21,000 miles during the nine-month season. He starts training each year with a modest 30-to 40-mile daily practice, soon works up to 90 to 125 miles a day. A perfectionist, he "cures" his tires by storing them for three years in a cool, dry cellar. His bikes are like nothing ever seen in the local sports shop: an 181-lb. model with ten speeds for the sprints, a more rugged 22-lb. version with twelve speeds for the mountains...
...father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church in Beaufort West, a country town miles from South Africa's big cities. Father comes across as a charmingly inept eccentric who understood God but could never master a car's gearshift. Mother, though, was a ruthless perfectionist who taught her four children that they must always be first in school and never admit defeat...