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...Taking in the new snootiness of sex clubs and the sight of a couple playing a video game called Cop Killer on Valentine's Day, Richie, who is now 80 and still living in Tokyo, is a Rousseau of Kabukicho. "Life here means never taking life for granted," he writes, "never not noticing"; to some extent beauty lies in the eye of the outsider. A whole group of travelers, often sexual outlaws, has trenchantly mapped the exile's world: Paul Bowles in Morocco, Christopher Isherwood in California, Maugham in the south of France. Donald Richie in Asia goes even further...
...highlights of her life came in 2001, when she was invited to tea with Queen Beatrix. "I considered it a great honor," Van Andel-Schipper told the Courant. "She was really nice. I let her ask the questions. I thought that would be best." Although her sight is failing and she's become a little wobbly on her feet, the former needlework instructor remains mentally alert and socially engaged. "She's really interested in what's going on in the world and listens to the news on the radio most days," Beijering says. Longevity didn't seem...
...ways Hellboy manages to balance these audiences, like its special effects, are a sight to behold. Director and writer Guillermo Del Toro takes Mike Mignola’s cult-fave comic to new depths, adding meat to the hero and villains, expanding the back-story, and throwing in a crucial monster-human love story that the books lacked. But Del Toro’s adoration for the off-kilter miasma of Mignola’s world and the monster-fighting monster is also evident in his attention to the bizarre detail and playful spirit of the comic...
...between 1910 and 1940). But one of the major traps of dealing with “outsider” art is that in welcoming it into the mainstream (no matter how well-meaning our efforts to legitimize it may be) there is a real danger that we will lose sight of the qualities that make it special in the first place...
...romp over the Tigers on Saturday—and judging by a quick scan of the stands, there weren’t many of you not dressed in a cheerleader or band uniform—Princeton Stadium, the site of the carnage, was quite a sight to behold, a modern temple to a sport the school isn’t even very good...