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Japan Chucks in Its Clogs It's difficult to imagine how an amusement park built around windmills and giant wooden shoes could fail, but last week Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch theme park in Nagasaki, Japan, became the country's third largest bankruptcy this year, with liabilities of $1.95 billion. With unemployment at record highs, people in the world's second-biggest economy are in no mood to play; indeed, the once-booming leisure industry is also responsible for the country's two largest bankruptcies. The fall of Huis Ten Bosch is most significant because it highlights Japan's banking...
...artist are now deliberately exposed and documented. David Batchelor's The Spectrum of Brick Lane, a tower of light boxes, reveals its naked anatomy of trailing wires and reused components, echoing the untidy aspects of a built-up area as well as its brash artificial sources of color. Another theme Nesbitt detects is art that "invites a direct encounter," like Jim Lambie's jazzy floor of multicolored vinyl tape that follows and magnifies the pillars and doorways of a double-height gallery. In contrast, Susan Philipsz's art is meant to be overheard - a tune picked out clumsily...
...history is a major theme within the book, especially as it relates to guilt, Cantor says...
Marshall’s lyrics address a variety of topics, but the songs are united by a theme of liberation. “Free” celebrates catharsis through music (“Just be in love when you scream that song on and on”), while “Good Woman” is a refreshingly optimistic breakup song, replete with children’s choir. Though “Names” takes on the challenging subject of child abuse, it is perhaps the album’s only misstep. Despite their good intentions, the lyrics...
...central theme of Rawls’ life was not forgotten as the guests discussed his life—and philosophy—over drinks and hors d’oeuvres at the Loeb House reception after the service...