Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outskirts of Tokyo, the 70-year-old master carver sits on a tatami mat, his workbench and tools covered with a fine ivory dust. In his hands is an ivory figurine of the Merciful Mother Kannon, which he has been carving for a month. Beside him sits his son Ryusei, 37, a fourth-generation ivory carver. The elder Kawaguchi is a gentle man with a reverence for the gleaming white medium he has spent his lifetime bringing to life. His eyes are weak from the strain of the work. Only in the stillness of night does he carve the delicate...
...mother's murder. The investigator was indistinguishable from the avenger. He eventually tracked down Eleni's inquisitor and interviewed him at gunpoint. But Gage did not pull the trigger. "There are times when I wake up at night and want to get back on a plane and kill the son of a bitch," Gage said. A Place for Us overlaps that past and goes on to embrace less heroic lifetimes, mainly the author's and that of his father. Yet each life is gallant for its own reasons. Christos Gatzoyiannis passed through Ellis Island first in 1910, and again...
...forces should be able to hold off the poorly disciplined forces of Sihanouk and Son Sann, perhaps 20,000 in all. The declared aim of their offensive was to test the strength of the government and force resumption of political talks. The Khmer Rouge are a different matter. Inside Cambodia the common wisdom is that Khmer Rouge strength and ability are overrated. But the view from the border, where most of the troops are based, is far less sanguine. "The Khmer Rouge are in this fight to the end," says a guerrilla- warfare expert in Thailand. Observes an international relief...
...unorthodoxy of her political life has extended at times to her personal life. After Richardson began an affair with actress Jeanne Moreau and thereby precipitated the end of an already troubled marriage, Redgrave had a romance with actor Franco Nero, with whom she had a son, Carlo, now 19. More recently, she shared bed and the boards with actor Timothy Dalton, almost ten years her junior (and the latest James Bond), who was her Antony and Petruchio in the repertory triumphs...
...little is known about its details. It looks quite seamless compared with the struggles of Spain's other archetypal painter, Goya -- a steadily mounting curve of recognition and respect, unmarred by scandal or alienation (although he did father one bastard in Rome). Born in Seville in 1599, the son of a minor Hidalgo family, half- Portuguese, possibly with a trace of Jewish ancestry, Velazquez would always be preoccupied with his social position. (He went to great lengths to qualify as a knight of the Order of Santiago, whose members would not accept him until the King, who loved his painter...