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...bought Rockefeller Center and Pebble Beach golf courses have been replaced by a growing malaise. Joblessness, bankruptcy, crime and suicide, once rare in Japan, are now just average headlines. In the recession-ravaged hot-springs resort town of Yufuin, citizens are hedging their futures by resorting to barter trade. Taxi rides, sake and even hospital bills can be paid for with a local scrip called the yufu. What backs it? Locals do odd jobs in return for yufu. "Our wealth is slipping away," moans Eisuke Sakakibara, a former Vice Minister in the once all-powerful Ministry of Finance...
...anything like me, you’ve probably done your best to ignore the maddening chatter of your friends as they scheme and strategize. How tragic it is to watch promising minds turn to mush when the problems they face switch from political theory and organic chemistry to taxi cabs and dinner reservations. Valentine’s Day really isn’t that hard. Hundreds of movies spell out a fool-proof formula for even the most unimaginative Romeo: greet her with flowers, take her for a fancy and overpriced meal and stroll along together, warming the winter...
...city shares the sentiment: every street sign, lamppost, bus and taxi is bedecked in official logos; billboards have been raised just to welcome the hordes of interlopers who will take over this city for the next 16 days. At the airport, the arrivals area is stuffed with "Welcome" signs and banners, multi-lingual greetings and beaming IOC representatives...
...fake. The works on display are all in keeping with the bogus trash aesthetic. The most significant is Chinese artist Wang Du's No Comment, a giant wastepaper basket filled with old newspapers and three TV sets, a visual pun on the notion of trash TV. In Taxi Biennale - a garishly airbrushed comic strip presenting the adventures of "Curatorman, the young CEO of the global player ?uratorman Inc." - Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul offers a labored reworking of another hoary old chestnut: the relationship between art and commerce. American Naomi Fisher photographs herself doggy-style with plant stems transpiercing her underwear...
DIED. JULIA PHILLIPS, 57, producer of such 1970s movie hits as The Sting and Taxi Driver, whose biting 1991 book, You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, scandalized Hollywood; of cancer; in West Hollywood, Calif. Phillips skewered herself along with celebrities like Warren Beatty ("priapic") and Mike Ovitz ("a Valley viper") in her book. Of the angry reaction in Hollywood, Phillips said, "I wasn't a pariah because I was a drug-addicted...rotten person [but] because I lit them with a harsh fluorescent light and rendered them as contemptible as they truly...