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...well as the most accomplished. The 37-year-old Machida started out painting in the traditional nihonga style-which emphasizes rich color-before abruptly shifting to drawing only in stark, monotone lines. "Colors weren't really fitting my character," she says (nor, one might add, the bleakness of her subject matter). Her art teachers initially dismissed her new style-"they said it's not painting; it's just manga," she recalls-but Machida persevered, eventually earning critical and popular acceptance. Today Yuji Yamashita, a professor of art history at Tokyo's Meiji Gakuin University, calls Machida perhaps the best...
Because of our special tortured history on the subject of race, electing a black President would demonstrate that idea even more powerfully than electing a woman. Hillary Clinton's very success in building a political machine and becoming the front runner makes her candidacy seem less remarkable. Unlike Clinton, who explicitly says on the stump that it's time for a woman President, Obama contents himself with code. "It's time to move forward," he says. But we all get the message...
Twentieth century Washington hostesses wielded such political power that they achieved wider public acclaim. Perle Mesta, known as "the hostess with the mostest," became Harry Truman's ambassador to Luxembourg, the inspiration for the Irving Berlin musical Call Me Madam and the subject of a 1949 cover story in this magazine. Bill Clinton posted Pamela Harriman as his ambassador to France. It was the least the President could do for a woman who used her talent for entertaining, and her husband's money, to bring fractious Democrats together in the 1980s, eventually uniting them behind the young Governor of Arkansas...
...urge was hardest to resist when I was with my drinking buddies, hearing the clink of glasses and bottles, seeing others imbibe and smelling the aroma of wine or beer. The researchers at McLean have invented a machine that wafts such odors directly into the nostrils of a subject undergoing an fMRI scan in order to see how the brain reacts. The reward circuitry in the brain of a newly recovering alcoholic should light up like a Christmas tree when stimulated by one of these alluring smells...
...phrases: malls are called “shoppings” and American music dominates pop radio. Asking for directions can result in a 30-minute conversation. Working for the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, I have learned that everyone wants to talk to a reporter. The subject of the conversation, however, can vary. I received a guided tour of the University of São Paulo’s equivalent of University Hall—invaded by students and barred to the press—after a fifteen-minute argument with a socialist student named Duarte who tried...