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...minded aesthetes would meet to compose poetry and perform that most quintessentially Japanese of arts, the tea ceremony. (Today, any object of the tea ritual from that time, even the humblest bamboo ladle, fetches a fabulous sum at auction if an association with Yoshimasa can be established.) An accomplished poet and great patron of Noh theater, Yoshimasa explored every artistic field known in his day and even created a few: he played a crucial role in the emerging art of flower arrangement and dabbled in the blending of perfumes...
...Hefty and balding, looking nothing like the generically adorable Kens and Barbies of today?s news shows, Kuralt was a throwback to such early TV hosts and humorists as Dave Garroway, Will Shriner, Jimmy Dean and the young monologist Andy Griffith - but with a touch of the Hallmark poet and a zeal to bring to broadcast life an America most people didn?t know (or care) still existed. As TV zoomed into the electronic age, Kuralt stayed unplugged, logging 50,000 miles a year in his mobile home-office. TIME called his reports for the CBS Evening News ?two-minute...
...undergraduates, graduate students, alumni and professional artists from the Boston area, in media ranging from photography and painting to sculpture and video. The opening receptions will also feature live performances by the Harvard Spoken Word Society, a cast member from The Vagina Monologues and Raquel Evita Seidel, a local poet, dancer and visual artist...
...Vajpayee's new status as paramount leader of the BJP is a turnaround for the 79-year-old politician, who was once sidelined within the party because of his reputation as a moderate. A Hindi poet of some merit, Vajpayee is known for his witty repartee and avuncular congeniality. With his tendency to speak in cryptic one-liners, the Prime Minister is often a sphinxlike figure, who leaves observers guessing about his true feelings on issues such as Hindu nationalism. Under his prime ministership, however, the BJP-led coalition that has ruled India since 1998 has disappointed Hindu fundamentalists...
...attitudes are changing. "To be bodily close again, to enjoy whatever the aging process allows, is one of the greatest blessings I know," a woman, 73, tells sex educator Eric Johnson. "Grow old along with me," the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to her new husband Robert Browning when she was 40, he was 34, and open expression of sexual desire was unheard of in polite society. "The best," she promised, "is yet to be." We're only beginning to learn how right she was. --With reporting by Kathie Klarreich/Miami and Wendy Malloy/Tampa