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Like Suzuki, many Japanese thirst for attractively priced foreign goods. When the U.S. Commerce Department opened an office in Osaka to distribute mail-order catalogs from firms such as Neiman Marcus and Lands' End last year, more than 2,000 were snapped up the first weekend. But it will take thousands of scenes like that one to begin to deflate...
...redeeming it beyond its value as sheer escapist entertainment. Fortunately, it has no aspirations to be any more than that. It's a fairly pleasant drop of water, a bit more well-rounded and shiny than what usually flows from student pens. If you're looking to quench your thirst for bubbly romantic plots and fizzy characters, stop by Leverett House...
Kinnell, who is a professor of creative writing at New York University, read from his new book Imperfect Thirst as well as from older works spanning his career. When asked why he chose a poem about one of his children to begin, he said that the type of day which showed winter was about to begin reminded...
Kinnell, author of Imperfect Thirst, read poems including Keats' "Ode To Autumn" and "The Owl" by Edward Thomas...
They camp on doorsteps, in schoolyards, in cemeteries, in fields so crowded that people sleep standing up. Men and women search for fresh water only to find a thick, slimy brew so fouled by human waste that it does more to spread disease than quench thirst. For miles around, the trees have been disappearing, fed into pitiful cooking fires. If the refugees could burn corpses, there would be fuel enough for weeks...