Word: tsunami
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Thursday: Spin Doctors with Life In Between, Dreams Made Flesh and Tsunami Poets...
Dubbed "the Japanese Tsunami," Fujimori surprised Peru's longtime favorite son by appealing to the country's desperate poor in a door-to-door campaign through shantytowns and farm villages. Although a native of Peru, Fujimori benefited from Japan's reputation as the new economic superpower. On a political talk show he mentioned Vargas Llosa's claim that "he can get $1 billion from the Japanese," then added with a grin, "I ask myself, Why aren't they going to give it to Alberto Fujimori...
...political candidate who comes out of nowhere, the Japanese Tsunami could fade just as fast as he rose. But for now his fresh face and promises of greater social justice seem to be just what Peruvian voters are looking...
...yellowed, Shinro Ohtake's mixed-media assemblages and collage- filled scrapbooks seek an awkward beauty in combinations of found objects and unwanted rubbish. Such pieces as his Family Tree, 1986-88, serve as vivid symbols of the appropriationist free-for-all that is Japanese pop culture today -- a tsunami of Mickey Mouse trinkets, teriyaki burgers, Picasso calendars, Swatches and more. They are also dispassionate records of life in what Ohtake calls an "information supermarket," an environment in which traditional Japanese cultural values are up for grabs, along with everything else...
...Houston, 1,100 miles from the epicenter. A 2-ft. tidal wave rolled ashore on the coast of El Salvador, more than 800 miles to the southeast. Hawaii, 3,500 miles west of the quake in the Pacific, was alerted to prepare for an ocean swell known as a tsunami, but it never materialized...