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...calls himself Kafka Tamura, though you never learn his real name. He left home because his sculptor father was a sadistic beast who drove wife and daughter to decamp years earlier and who cruelly tells the boy that he will someday kill Dad and have sex with Mom and Sis. Determined to be "the toughest 15-year-old in the world," Kafka flees the prophesy, only to collide with it at Takamatsu. Complications ensue, as do very realistic wet dreams involving both the librarian and the hairdresser. But are they dreams? And did he really kill his father? Typically, Murakami...
DIED. AGNES (SIS) CUNNINGHAM, 95, who co-founded, with her husband, the influential folk-song journal Broadside in 1962; in New Paltz, N.Y. During its 26-year run, the magazine published more than 1,000 songs, including Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind and early works by Phil Ochs, Janis Ian, Tom Paxton and Buffy Sainte-Marie. An accomplished accordion and guitar player, she performed with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger in the 1940s...
...March, while hundreds protested on Zaoui's behalf, the head of the Security Intelligence Service, Richard Woods, announced that terrorists might be using New Zealand as a "haven ? a place to lie low for a while." The SIS was "identifying more people in or from New Zealand who are of terrorist or other security concern," Woods said. In the past year, he revealed, three New Zealand residents had been refused passports after being ruled "security risks." The opposition National Party wants the three expelled. "If we allow people to come here and stay here even though they're a security...
...inexplicably ignore). This is probably a cultural difference; the American shows are much sunnier about the market as a benevolent force. Not that Location's buyers and their families are necessarily innocent either. One buyer's sister persuades her not to bid on a prospective house because, we learn, Sis wants the place for herself. Backbiting relatives, subterfuge and money squabbles? Ah, now that feels like home...
...successful holiday albums under their belts. In tandem with a new album and the launch of a new tour next spring, I am hoping to see a Britney Spears holiday special, broadcast from her hometown of Kentwood, La, and hopefully with cameos from her mom and lil’ sis Jamie Lynn. The three could probably pull off shimmery ice queen and princess looks, and showcase Britney’s favorite stocking stuffers such as the pink diamond-encrusted Louis Vuitton cigarette lighter she has been flashing during interviews these days. If producers went for a heartwarming holiday reunion theme...