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...directory of the narrow, six-story building just off Roppongi's main drag. In an effort to erase their club's history, management has changed its name to Greengrass. Everything else is the same. Customers are still greeted when they enter the joint by a maître d' in an ill-fitting tuxedo. The lounge area is still dark. The black leather modular couches are still so mushy that customers and hostesses almost collapse into each other when they sit down. There are a dozen small tables, each just big enough for the decanter of Suntory whiskey, the water...
...know the Boy Genius," and they all do. (Bush's other nickname for Rove is less flattering: Turd Blossom.) Like some of his predecessors - Atwater, James Carville - Rove is turning into a Washington celebrity. When he and his wife, Darby, step out for dinner, maître d's offer them private dining rooms. Strangers on the street ask for his autograph. Congressmen drop his name and quote things he may or may not have said. He even has the dubious honor of being the only aide lampooned on the Comedy Central series "That's My Bush...
...Such unquestioning patriotism is just fine with the Chinese government. With socialism defunct as an inspirational ideology, the Communist Party has adopted nationalism as its new raison d'être. Thousands of Beijing students hurled stones at the U.S. embassy after the NATO bombing, and also burned American flags helpfully handed out by local security forces...
Thus the strange inaccessibility of blackboard fragments: Slavic grammar left from a previous class, six contextual uses of "tre," metaphor underlined six times, the outlines of tensor products hidden beneath organic compounds. Who is to say what these meant to the people in the room before us? The blackboard, unlike a book, rarely contains an explanation of its own context; its fragments are as foreign to the observer as pieces of a telephone conversation caught in an instance of crossed lines. (It is a small part of the pantomime...
...RADIOHEAD, KID A: Well crafted and inscrutable, this deceptively mellow CD has the haunting power of a dream remembered. Tinged with electronica, bursting with restless creativity, it delivers rock's elegy and its raison d'être...