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...NOTEBOOK Japan: A Sumo Bows Out China: Born Under a Bad Sign Cambodia: The Art of Survival Milestones...
Looking back on his time at Winthrop, Hanson said he remembered both the good times and the hard times. He recalled an event three years ago at Thropstock, Winthrop House’s spring festival, when students encouraged him to take on his wife in a sumo wrestling match...
...successfully managed to satirize MTV culture by parodying the short-attention-span hyper-sexuality that so pervades music, movies and television. In the case of the “Hashpipe” video, the subject was not a Britney Spears or Cameron Diaz, but instead a pair of fighting sumo wrestlers. By fetishizing fleshy backsides instead of glistening lips and cleavage, Weezer turned MTV’s techniques against itself, making a brilliant statement about this country’s obsession with having the right proportions...
Such sentiments are common. Every word Koizumi speaks is golden. Whether celebrating with a champion sumo wrestler, tossing a baseball back and forth with President Bush, or commiserating with leprosy victims mistreated for decades by the government, Koizumi has touched a downcast nation. A record label has released a CD of his favorite Elvis hits. There's a mint-flavored Koizumi chewing gum. Last week stores started selling a coffee-table book with snapshots of Koizumi in a bathrobe, Koizumi reading, Koizumi playing baseball, Koizumi eating noodles. "The whole country is depressed," says Masaaki Nagamoto, 45, a law clerk shopping...
...rise to fame. Only one video was made for Pinkerton—a straightforward three-minute ordeal panning over the geek boys playing “El Scorcho.” But now Cuomo seems to have re-evaluated the art of video—unless he sees the sumo wrestlers in the “Hash Pipe” video as a straightforward expression of a song about a teenage transsexual prostitute. Not only was “Hash Pipe,” or, as they call it on puritanical M-bleep-bleep, “H*** Pipe...