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Every other summer, hundreds of the world’s most prestigious artists, selected by a rigorous international jury, descend upon the lagoon to show their work—work that often makes Plessi’s flames seem positively tame. Sumo wrestlers fight amid a candy-colored geometric background in one room, while another man tries to walk on ice wearing spherical shoes and a human nipple is transformed into an evening bag. There are bronze garbage bags and terra-cotta plungers, photographs of rest-room graffiti and gorgeous formal painting. There’s even a flying steamroller...
...Knows Sumo? The Jockey Underpants Ad Would Be Memorable There is something so last century about the two-sport athlete. Bo Jackson. Deion Sanders. Michael Jordan. Perhaps it was '90s irrational exuberance that caused American jocks to ask themselves: Why excel at just one sport when you could be mediocre at two? That had economists wondering if 30-year-old retired sumo wrestler WAKANOHANA's hankering to play in the NFL could be a harbinger of impending Japanese prosperity. The former grand champion has said he's been more attracted to the gridiron than the dojo since boyhood. It would...
...about Japanese players like Ichiro Suzuki playing in the U.S. Major Leagues? Koizumi: It's the dream of Japanese players. I'm very happy they can play equally with American players. We used to think the Americans played at a much higher level. The national sport in Japan is sumo, but the Japanese love baseball even more. Baseball is America's national sport, but it has become Japan's national sport as well. Japanese fans watch the Japanese players in America with interest and joy. The American games on TV are more popular than the Japanese games...
...Losers ANNA KOURNIKOVA L'oeuf bug! A cybervirus as lethal as its Philippine cousin travels under the leggy tennis star's name TINTIN Zut alors! A bawdy spoof sends the francophone toon traveler on a salacious trip to Thailand AKEBONO First foreign sumo champ crashes motorcycle, then apologizes. To the bike? Verbatim...
That may be wishful thinking, and there's certainly a lot of that in the bot business. Tiger claims its Mousies can sumo wrestle, but it takes a vivid imagination to interpret their random bumping as sumo body blows. Likewise, the company's seemingly endless line of Robo-Chi toys (cat, bird, dogs, even a plant) do little more than bark and squawk at one another...