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...daily routine approaches a ritual. Early in the morning, he strolls through his sprawling Tokyo compound, with its exquisitely pebbled garden and tiny pools a pa to a spacious reception hall. There he spends the day greeting a parade of visitors. Politicians, businessmen, constituents: they all come to pay homage to Kakuei Tanaka. For a man forced out as Prime Minister in 1974 for financial juggling, and still awaiting a verdict on charges of pocketing a $2 million bribe, the pageant of respect is remarkable. He remains the country's mightiest politician-the "Shogun of the Darkness," as Tanaka...
...expanded his country's defense commitment in the western Pacific. At the same time, he has moved rapidly to open Japanese markets to more Western imports. Following his party's good showing in the recent parliamentary elections, Nakasone met with Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold in the spacious salon outside the Prime Minister's office in downtown Tokyo. Excerpts from the interview...
...shoot a fashion layout. A kindly, graying interpreter named Lulla welcomed us in Beirut at our hotel, one of the intact few. The nearby Holiday Inn, in contrast, had been gutted, sandbagged and turned into a multi-level parking garage for combat vehicles. Lulla lived by herself in a spacious but dilapidated apartment in the center of the city. When I asked her about the small holes that riddled her blinds, she explained matter of factly that snipers were still active at night even though the civil war had formally ceased the previous year. She continued to sleep...
...single from the just released Staying Alive sound track, has been made the official one by RSO Records. He stretches the song by moving segments of it around and expanding the tonal range so that there are more deep-bass and high-register sounds. The result is a more spacious and physical experience on the dance floor. Says Jellybean: "Before, it seemed like a record just got started, and before you could dance, it was over...
...appetizers were pate, salmon mousse, cheese and crackers and wine. The main dish was politics. That, and a cool summer breeze brought a couple dozen city activists to the spacious, woody backyard of a private home just off Brattle St. Wednesday night...