Word: sakes
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...basic knowledge that public leaders need to carry out their responsibilities is very much a seamless web. For simplicity's sake, however, it is possible to distinguish among three major forms of knowledge: a familiarity with the more sophisticated analytic methods that are increasingly used in the planning and evaluation of public programs; a knowledge of methods of organization and management together with an understanding of the political processes that influence government action; and a sensitivity to the problems of ethics and competing values that inhere in all forms of public activity...
...something more-a Kurt Weill marvel. Not only were the famous Bilbao Song and Surabaya Johnny written for this musical, but also half a dozen other numbers of rare distinction. They range from Song of the Big Shot ("Just don't get soft, baby/ For god's sake never get soft, baby/ No ifs or buts/ Go on and kick him in the guts/ Go on and kick him in the guts. ") to Throw Out the Lifeline-Soul Overboard. By turns, the music is astringent, lyrical, opulently erotic and as jazzily smoky as a 1920s saxophone...
...bulldozing an original show through all the red tape and arbitrariness that clutters up the path to production. And unless authors and composers--who very often are not accepted "theater people" with ready made connections--are already wired in to one organization or another, the alternative for the sake of sanity has been in many cases to give up. Perhaps it is easier after all to put on a show in a depopulated university town in midsummer...
...ugly or delusive or frustrating or wasteful, or all four. That is why the Japan Society's current exhibition in New York, "Tsutsumu-the Art of Japanese Packaging," should not be missed. Organized and chosen by the Tokyo designer Hideyuki Oka, it consists of 221 packages, ranging from sake bottles to wrappings for candied papaya. All the designs have a long craft history, and some are very old indeed: one type of wooden container, tied together with strips of bark and used for carrying the raw fish on vinegared rice known as sushi, has been continuously made in Nara...
...sheathe it in straight wisps of straw and then bind it in straw rope like a corn husk, unwrap as much as you need, cut it off, close the inner layer of straw, retie the bundle. Such packaging uses humble materials with breathtaking panache: witness a bottle for sweet sake from Tokyo, coarse brown earthenware capped with a mottled sheet of bamboo bark and tied with creeper - an ordering of color and texture so fine as to annihilate (by comparison) any drink container now selling in the West, but doomed to extinction because it can only be made by hand...