Word: sento
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...team of six doctors from five countries (two from the U.S., one each from France, Poland, Spain and West Germany) pronounced him to be recovering nicely so far. Early last week the Pope was moved to say, after sipping tea laced with sugar, "Per la prima volta, mi sento bene" (For the first time, I feel well...
...Metropolitan Opera to join her fellow Greeks in the grim doings of Rossini's The Siege of Corinth. Looking slender and vulnerable in a long blue gown, Sills moved down a small set of stairs, but never had a chance to sing her opening line, "Che mat sento?"(What do I hear?). She knew what she heard-a minute-long roar of welcome not experienced at the Met since the debut of Joan Sutherland in 1961. That was only the beginning. After Sills' showpiece aria "Si ferite, " the house went wild for 4½ minutes. At evening...
Wholesale Murder? Camaraderie, however, was notably absent last week. The chimneys of all but a handful of the city's sento were smokeless, and signs on the doors read, "Suto-Chu [On strike-closed]." The sento suto was called because the city government had been stalling for nearly six months on granting a rate increase from 6.3? to 8.8? per adult admission requested by the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Bathhouse Business Association on grounds of "increased expenses...
...sento owners reckoned without the furious public. PEOPLE FLARE UP IN ANGER, screamed the banner headline in Tokyo's largest daily Yomiuri Shimbun; it reported that irate callers were jamming the paper's switchboard with threats to smash sento windows and protests that "They are infringing on basic human rights!" Cried Mrs. Eiko Takada, 24, mother of three: "How can we keep our babies living without bathing them at least once a day? Is the sento association trying to commit wholesale murder of babies?" Declared Mrs. Mumeo Oku, the vocal chairwoman of the Tokyo Housewives Association: "These...
...Needless to say, they hadn't thought of it-and when they did, they were appalled. "Women and women's stockings, you know, are the things that have become strong in this country since the war," muttered one association official, understandably declining to be identified. Though 500 sento owners staged a sit-in outside the office of Tokyo's Governor Ryutaro Azuma, they seemed downright delighted the next day when he forced them to call off the strike, "for the sake of sanitation among the citizenry." The governor conceded that approval of the rate increases just possibly...