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...Washington, D.C., would be Suicide City. The hara-kiri of a Japanese Finance Ministry official this week after he was questioned by officials investigating bribery is simply the latest indication that the spectre of public disgrace still compels men of power in Japan to take the way of the samurai. Continued...
...died on February 16 at 8 Walnut Avenue in Larchmont, two days after Valentine's Day. He was one year-old. Doctors said that the cause was low heat in the house and not being fed for four days. Lensky was born around February 10, 1997. Fish, samurai, world traveller, Lensky was named for the romantic poet of Pushkin's "Eugene Onegin" who is killed in a duel with the novel's title character. Lensky himself never led the romantic life that his namesake fancy, but he did exhibit the feeling of modish spleen of the 19th-century aristocratic like...
...horseradishes and its homemade buckwheat noodles. Next to the feminine grace notes of a Kyoto, say, the northern city feels a decidedly masculine place. Its colors are brown and black, its aesthetic one of straw and stone. On its southern edge is Matsushiro, a castle town of old samurai houses and the remains of a military academy; to the north is Togakushi, a sacred, templed mountain favored by ascetics and home to a ninja museum...
...Elvis, he'll be Elvis--in spades. Just watch him open the show. His short program is to the pulsating rhythms of Japanese ceremonial taiko drums--what else?--as he not only plays the home card but also gets to indulge his samurai soul thoroughly. The first 45 sec. involve footwork that might have tripped Astaire--it took Elvis a month to master the steps--and represents the champ's latest challenge to the skating world, and to himself. A minute into the Olympic competition, Stojko could be headed for the podium or out the door. But one thing...
...Japanese films; in Mitaka, Japan. In his 16-film collaboration with director Akira Kurosawa, Mifune came to embody the heroic, archetypical loner with his rough features and angry intensity. America had cowboys; Japan had Mifune, wielding a sword and his trademark glare in the Oscar-winning Rashomon, The Seven Samurai and Yojimbo. Although Mifune often played the Pacific enemy in American films like Midway (1976), his menace needed no translation. It was his Japanese films that stuck with audiences, inspiring such imitators as Clint Eastwood and even Jim Belushi...