Word: training
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dust, low green hills. A bride and groom make their way through a crowd of swaying villagers who clap and chant a ritual wedding song. Tribesmen draped in striped blankets beat the rhythm on painted drums. After the marriage feast, the couple walk in the countryside. She gathers the train of her bridal dress with one hand; the other is intertwined in his. "If only we didn't have to go back," he says. She looks up, all fresh anticipation. "I wonder what our life will be like?" she asks. Then: "I know one thing. Life with you is life...
...present aid, would be used to prompt changes in the system. Samples: Senator Joseph Biden would lengthen the academic year by 30 days; Congressman Richard Gephardt would reward school districts that show the most improvement; Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis would intensify federal efforts to help recruit and train teachers. When Gephardt asserted that educational reform "is going to take money -- I think all of us would agree," no Democrat dissented...
Both visions of modern Japanese design are correct. Where on the one hand there is Tokyo, on the other there is Kyoto, the perfect religious city. On street corners and in train stations are impeccably printed surreal posters that seem only incidentally to be advertising, but in the pages of magazines there is artsy typographical chaos. There are delightfully showboating aluminum office towers (such as Fumihiko Maki's Spiral building in Tokyo) as well as brand-new buildings made entirely of secondhand wood (Atsuo Hoshino's House of Used Lumber, on the outskirts of Tokyo). The familiar and the provocative...
...living from their art. Many turn to editorial and advertising work. They may be painters manque, but talented art directors and designers are more indulged and permitted more expressive leeway in Japan than in most other countries. Much of their work, even for big corporations, is highly unorthodox. At train stations in Tokyo last year, commuters could not avoid a meditation on androgyny, in the form of huge prints of a man's face superimposed on a woman's; the only type was the company's name, almost unreadably small, at the bottom. "The Japanese regard advertising as a kind...
Kennedy School students will also have the opportunity to work with other parts of the Harvard community, as well as with groups outside the ivory tower. Phillips Brooks House (PBH) will rely on K-School students to help train undergraduate volunteers, Supple said...