Word: shiatsu
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Different folks can choose different strokes or a combination. Swedish massage, the most familiar technique, uses oils to reduce friction and employs long full strokes, along with kneading and pounding motions. In newly popular Japanese Shiatsu and Chinese acupressure, fingers are pressed along defined paths on the body in order to release chi, or trapped energy. Other techniques include deep-tissue or structural massage, and reflexology, which focuses on the foot and hand...
Flanked by the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building and the U.S. Court of International Trade, Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan is one of the ugliest public spaces in America. Everything, from its coarse buildings -- which look the way institutional disinfectant smells -- to its dry, littered fountain, begs for prolonged shiatsu with a wrecker's ball. But since no one is going to do that, would the next best thing be to put a Major Sculpture by a Major American Artist there...