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...than Harajuku, has blossomed into a full-blown pop-cultural phenomenon. More and more Japanese kids are hanging out in the streets, parks and clubs in search of a psychedelic, '60s-style encounter that will enable them to forget the bad news, bad economy and bad grades in a swirl of peyote and paisley. For some, the escape hatch is in hallucinogenic drugs?like magic mushrooms, which are legal due to a loophole that permits their sale as long as they are not specifically designated for consumption. (Peyote containing mescaline can also be sold through this same circumvention.) Others...
...regular Friday dinner, they were dressed casually in khaki slacks and polo shirts and had already had a few drinks. The two were notorious prowlers of the Kathmandu night-life circuit, regulars at the X-Zone nightclub and the Bakery Cafe, where they were at the center of a swirl of hip kids and young adults whose preferred mode of transportation is a Lexus SUV and whose favored intoxicant is locally processed hashish. By the time the night was over, the two would become central figures in the succession to a throne traditionally occupied by a reincarnation of the Hindu...
...Replacing Mary Jo White Rumors continue to swirl that U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White will leave her job in the southern district of New York this summer - especially now that the East Africa bombing trial is nearly over. In the early days of the Bush administration, a source said that she would be kept on at least as long as the trial continued. Guilty verdicts on all 302 counts against the four defendants were handed down May 29, a major coup for White's office. Now the case enters the penalty phase. Two of those convicted, Mohamed Rashed Daoud...
...culmination and extinction of hope. The vision of plenty for everyone becomes a mockery - a process whose impact is amply documented by the 1930s social-realist segments of this show, with their dock strikers and Mexican migrant workers pitted against grasping Anglo bosses. Different cultures and immigrant races swirl around, not in a melting pot as some optimists have supposed but in unappeased opposition to one another...
...wife, production designer and costumer Catherine Martin, have found an intelligent nexus of sense and sensibility. They have created a fantasy Paris where everything is not only possible but gorgeous as well. The camera hovers over a cityscape that looks like a perfect cardboard diorama. Dancers' skirts swirl in Impressionist pixilation. "Don't wanna listen?" the film seems to ask the musically challenged viewer. "Then just watch...