Word: shoji
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That's in synch, of course, with young Japanese, who crowd into head shops in Hakuba and talk of winter sports as kakkoi, or cool, without referring to temperature. "Snowboarding's awesome, man," Shoji Koike, a student of Tsukuba University, volunteered, unsolicited, last week. "Once you've tried it, you don't go back to skiing...
...traditional Japanese house, Scawthorn says, the first floor lacks interior walls that could help support the weight of the second floor, as they would for a Western home; in Japan rooms are frequently separated by flimsy, sliding shoji screens. Scawthorn's recommendation: place a few steel braces along the exterior walls, and reinforce one or two interior walls so they can help carry the weight of the second story. ``Last of all,'' he says, ``I would take those heavy tiles off the roof and replace them with the lighter-weight plastic ones available in Japan now.'' All told, the work...
...mostly from a 300-mile radius that takes in St. Louis, Memphis and Wichita, but increasingly from all across the U.S. Patrons can meet the stars' families in theater lobbies; Tillis' wife, for one, sells candy. Most of the performers sit onstage at intermission to sign autographs, and violinist Shoji Tabuchi heads to the parking lot after his show to wave goodbye to the tour buses. Prices are right too. You can still get a motel room for $40, and there are 6,000 campsites in town. Says Mary Nell King of Pocahontas, Ark.: "I've seen one Broadway show...