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...just a sport but also a revered institution, an intrinsic part of the national genome. A number of its esoteric rituals are rooted in Shinto, the native animist religion, and its training emphasizes ancient Japanese virtues, such as duty, fortitude and respect for elders, as much as it does pure athletic prowess. Even though the foreign invasion has reignited public interest in the stagnating sport, many elders at the clubby and hidebound Japan Sumo Association have become fearful that admitting too many hungry foreign upstarts will dilute what they routinely rhapsodize as professional sumo's unique Japanese character and traditions...
...different foundational documents and that justices generally choose to look abroad only to bolster their existing opinions. “Foreign judges do not have any sort of legitimacy in the American legal system,” Posner said. “And then there’s the pure opportunism of it. The Supreme Court only looks abroad to confirm its prejudices, not to challenge them.” Jackson defended the Court’s ruling in Roper, saying that the Court has always incorporated foreign law and that it should “engage” foreign...
...Symphony No. 5.” Zander will give a pre-concert “behind the scenes” talk at 1:45 p.m. Sanders Theatre. 3 p.m. Tickes available through the Harvard Box Office, (617) 496-2222. $76/58/43/29/8. (KAF)Boston Chamber Music Society presents “Pure Rhapture: Gershwin, Brahms, Enesco, Debussy.” Sunday’s program includes Enesco’s “Romanian Rhapsody in A major, Op. 11, No. 1,” Debussy’s “Première Rapsodie (1910),” Gershwin?...
...dance history--from the sample of Abba's Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! that anchors the massively catchy first single, Hung Up, to the buried bars of Like a Prayer that pop up for a few seconds--float by like glittery party favors. But what you notice most is the pure ecstasy of sound. It's not a Phil Spector--type wall but a galaxy, filled with collisions and comets zooming from speaker to speaker...
...final film, the plot, rather, plots are wholly invented and the names have been changed. Clooney's character is called Bob Barnes, although his expertise and undercurrent of melancholy are pure Baer. (Barnes' prodigiously sarcastic son Robby is modeled on Charlotte Baer.) But the fruits of Gaghan's research are obvious. Syriana's characters--from would-be Arab princes to American oil traders, CIA agents to terrorists--behave in exquisitely detailed and complicated ways. They cross paths and challenge one another's assumptions, just as Gaghan's were challenged. Of course, Syriana is entertainment first and foremost. It just happens...