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...while loitering around a railroad station, he is adopted by two abandoned children. He snarls like a bee-stung samurai, he sulks like a spoiled geisha, but the kids tag along. And so Junpei has two kids, a sweetheart on the lam, and no yen except to do right by the youngsters and to get Komako (and his money) back...
...imported hip-swinging was wasted on the musicians of the NHK. For 36 years they had served Germanic masters, who stylistically frown on conducting exertions more noticeable than an occasional swing of the index finger. The sight of the flailing young conductor reminded a critic of "a samurai warrior leading his men to battle." Soon the NHK ranks were brewing a mutiny. When the musicians said "Ozawa's full of air and showmanship, but little that's real art," he demanded apologies. Instead, he got fired. Refusing to believe his bad luck, Ozawa went to the concert hall...
More Than Secretaries. Before World War II, brawling was a common practice among hot-blooded delegates who, in the samurai tradition, were really hankering for medieval days when political differences were settled with the sword. Throughout the Diet building, the major conservative parties stationed flying squads of young toughs, known ironically as ingaidan (lobbyists), always ready for heckling or fighting. During the postwar years, the U.S. tried to enforce good behavior, but the quiet spell ended with the lifting of the Occupation. Though the ingaidan were gone, Diet members hired heavy-fisted brawlers as "secretaries...
...were bored with The Island, the Brattle will present for the rest of the week an indigenous counterpart, Seven Samurai. This rousing epic is the best of its type, and you won't need drugs to stay awake...
...poisoned meatballs-about one for every six or eight rats believed to be in the Ginza. Exterminators bugged ratholes with tiny microphones so as to detect enemy strongholds. They also planted extra-strong traps that are normally used to trap mink, since Ginza rats are a special samurai breed that can usually chew through a conventional trap. The hunters had no illusions about their foe. "The Ginza rats are terribly clever," said one old rodent fighter. "You can't just leave a meatball by a rathole and expect them to eat it. That's much too obvious. What...