Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have always been lush galvanizers who surrender voluptuously to the jagged contours of melodrama. The viewer surrenders, just as willingly, to Trissenaar, a Diane Keaton-type, but with brains and guts and class; to Schygulla, with her wicked-witch profile and wicked, witty mouth; and to Sukowa, who, as sweet sad Mieze, blazes trails of girlish naiveté into the jungle of male psychopathy...
...country. Unless one visits Japan, one may never be able to appreciate the country. It is a bit like tasting sugar. One says it is sweet, but unless one tastes it, no matter how many times it is explained, one can never know how sweet it is. So Japan may be a bit like sugar or salt: unless one tries to taste it, one may never be able to understand Japan. In the past, we have been lacking in our efforts to publicize Japan culturally. We have done quite well in exporting products. But from now on, we must make...
...ceremony, is by contrast all nouns. It is devoted to the thing-as-such, presented in small units with the precision of the razor knives that cut it and the picky exactitude of the little chopsticks that bring it to the mouth. Its decor is astringent, not sweet. Japanese cuisine's simplicity is a very high fiction, requiring too much skilled labor for it to be replicated in New York or London...
...husband around all the time. I wouldn't want to be beta-beta [stickily clinging all over each other]." But the younger Japanese who have had the great adventure of getting to know each other in school, want to be able to share their ideal heaven, a "sweet home." This desire partly explains the diminishing willingness of younger men to sacrifice their lives for their jobs, a situation that Japanese economic planners find alarming...
Their faces are soft and pretty, their voices tender and sweet. When it comes to pop music, the Japanese like their stars young and female. Last week the top of the pops belonged to a handful of singers - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Akina Nakamori, Naoko Kawai and Tomoyo Harada- whose claim to fame owes more to their winsome good looks than their modest vocal talent. Says Shig Fujita, an entertainment writer for the Asahi Evening News...