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Given Broza’s prowess with the guitar, it’s no wonder that he cast a spell with his music. Yet Broza is also a born performer, from the endearing gap between his teeth to his relaxed sense of humor, from his low, soothing voice to his obvious comfort in front of an audience. Haphazardly stopping between songs to tell long stories about himself, Broza demonstrated a kind of insouciance that contributed to his strength as an entertainer...
...Monks, and Courtesans: Class and Gender Perspectives on Premodern Japan.” In the past decade, Adolphson has authored two books, “The Gates of Power: Monks, Courtiers, and Warriors in Premodern Japan,” which was published in 2000, and “The Teeth and Claws of the Buddha: Monastic Warriors and Sohei in Japanese History,” which came out this year. Kurashige said the University’s decision runs counter to the nation-wide trend of enhancing college programs in pre-modern Japanese studies. “If Harvard...
...feel for textures and shadings. ("Nothing in the world," she knows, "is as soft as mole fur. Venetian silk velvet perhaps comes closest.") Yet as with any geisha who sticks in the memory, she's clearly no shrinking violet. She went on book tour once, she confesses, with blackened teeth, to see how the old Japanese custom would play in contemporary America. Attending a conference on Lady Murasaki, she dyed her hair purple because murasaki in Japanese can mean "purple...
...SATIRIST CHRISTOPHER Buckley hasn't been overly ambitious in choosing his targets. (Unscrupulous tobacco lobbyists? Oh no he didn't!) But his new book, Boomsday, has some teeth--or at least some menacing dentures. Cassandra Devine is a 29-year-old blogger who has had it with the government bankrupting her generation to support legions of increasingly long-lived baby boomers. "Someone my age will have to spend their entire life paying unfair taxes," she rants, "just so the Boomers can hit the golf course at 62 and drink gin and tonics until they're 90. What happened...
...dismissed CBS CEO Les Moonves, a show-biz guy and former actor, for taking it on himself to "blow up" the news. But at least he believed something few of them did: that the evening news could reverse its long decline, attracting brand-new viewers with all their original teeth, rather than just fighting over a shrinking...