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Yasunari Kawabata's last novel is a consummately skillful arrangement of space and stillness, a brush drawing of love and vengeance not ultimately convincing, but perhaps ultimately not meant to convince. Yet the novel's measure is that its most fascinating feature may be the face of the...
Delivery Boy. As a boy, Jackson was a poor athlete, an avid Boy Scout and a skillful debater. At 13, he won a prize from the Everett Herald for diligence as a newspaper delivery boy. Its comic page chronicled the adventures of a newspaper reporter named Scoop, who was the...
Arthur, Hurley & Gottlieb: Sun light Shinin' (A&M). This is the second album of a trio whose voices ring strong and bright against vivid instrumentation. Lead Vocalist Jeff Arthur, a Florida orange-juice tenor, wrote all or part of six cuts, including the ten der ballad That's...
The main files came from TIME'S Hong Kong bureau. In spite of the thaw in U.S.-China relations and the bureau's proximity to the mainland, a mere 18 miles as the wu-ya (crow) flies, our correspondents in the crown colony must piece together news from...
Throughout his career, Teng has shown little respect for ideology. "It does not matter whether a cat is black or white," he has said, "so long as it catches mice." This irreverent pragmatism has earned him the hatred of the radicals. Yet even his critics acknowledge his intelligence and ability...