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...origin of most of this artwork is unknown to Dudley’s current residents, who can only recall the art that they added themselves: a few sugar-cereal boxes and newly painted walls. Rather than adding new work, they take pride in discovering interesting details in the art that already surrounds them already on the walls—such as a photograph of some former residents recreating Raphael’s “School of Athens” or the paper clock adjacent to an actual one, mounted upside-down...
Nothing ends a Creole meal better than a praline ($1.50). Haitian pralines differ from American ones in that the island variety mixes cashews or peanuts with sugar and hardens them into asymmetrical disks. Wrapped in standard Saran wrap, these sweets are unassuming treasures. I purchased a praline for the road, and munched on it while walking to the T-stop. In seconds, the sugar melted in my mouth, perfectly complementing the flavor of the cashews...
COWBOY BEBOP. This anime entertainment from Japan has marked time alongside The Powerpuff Girls on the Cartoon Network, but otherwise the two series don’t have much in common. Cowboy Bebop’s celluloid incarnation avoids Powerpuff’s sugar-and-spice conceit in favor of a complex plot involving Martians, killer Macadamia nuts and pharmaceutical corporations. The film borrows copiously from a range of niche genres—action, romance, western and sci-fi, among others. It’s a shame that it isn’t a musical, too (“Bebop?...
...Other ethnic groups looked upon us as the enemy, not to be trusted. Our village elders soon got together to burn or destroy anything to do with Japan: photos of the Emperor, flags, swords and even shortwave radios that could be turned into transmitters. Still, the police on the sugar plantation where we lived led the FBI into Japanese homes. Many people were rounded up: language teachers and martial-arts instructors as well as labor leaders and businessmen. My future father-in-law was arrested at rifle point and incarcerated in one of 10 relocation camps. Second-generation Japanese-American...
...Sugar-Coated Diplomacy...