Word: preciousness
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...among the American expatriates who were seeking a vision of a Japan untainted by foreign culture. Kawabata's aristocratic aesthetes, tea masters and geishas are the epitome of Flower Arranging Nation and some of his novels, to Western eyes, are more a series of beautiful tableaux than novels - too precious by half. His greatest works like Snow Country and House of Sleeping Beauties are haunting; more than any other Japanese author, Kawabata satisfies our appetite for strangeness and exoticism. Kawabata himself created a striking metaphor of cross-cultural fascination in the protagonist of Snow Country, who was devoted...
...semester. Somehow, for me, it still represented Japan, or at least comforted me by evoking my adolescent view of Japan. At the end of the year, when it was time for me to move out of the apartment, I couldn't think of what to do with that precious ship. It was too breakably delicate to pack or send home. Finally, I climbed onto my window ledge and leaned out over the street, setting the tiny ship in the space between the ledge and the immense shutters bolted to the wall. It could be months before anyone noticed it there...
...most of the day? Many anxious parents, wanting the best for their children and willing to pay for it, fill their kids' days with oboe lessons and karate classes, their rooms with phonics tapes and smart toys. And yet if you ask the experts to name the most precious thing you can provide your child, they often cite things you cannot buy: time and attention, the appreciation that play is children's work. Maybe, as the study results suggest, mothers have a special gift for giving that kind of gentle company. But it's hard to believe they...
...might have been simply a love song, only Tegan keeps on telling you, “It’s a silly time to learn to swim when you start to drown.” The lyrics are savvy and young at the same time, a rare and precious mix. The story is that their live act has more attitude than Bono in a sunglass store, and I can believe it. They’re playing Paradise May 18. Sounds like a great way to ring in exams...
Body microphones have just been borrowed from Hasty Pudding Theatricals, saving a precious $400 of the budget. Props, including two fencing swords and a real sword, have also been borrowed, again to cut costs. Costumes are borrowed from stock around the city. Deals are arranged in which programs are printed in return for ad space within the program. The budget leaves very little to be spent on costumes, sound, props, lights and all the other aspects of putting on a show. The production doesn’t receive any of the proceeds from ticket sales. Losses or gains are absorbed...