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...retail sales column, put them together, and presto! You've got yourself an economic recovery in long-suffering Japan. At least that's the rosy scenario painted by government leaders desperate to shore up their sagging popularity. The trouble is that to Japanese, the calculations look suspiciously like voodoo economics. "If the economy is getting better, we sure don't feel it," says 59-year-old Kinuyo Otsu while passing a Christian Dior shop in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. "Our husbands' jobs aren't stable enough, so we don't feel comfortable buying anything," Otsu says. "We use things until...
...Alas, Washington had no blooming future in movies. After "Imitation," she starred as a vengeful plantation owner in the indie voodoo drama "Ouanga" (1936), and had one more decent major-studio part, billed fourth in the Fox drama "One Mile from Heaven"(1937). Washington's duskily refined gorgeousness scared Hollywood bosses even as it tempted them; she took the hint and went back to New York. She co-founded the Negro Actors Guild of America and wrote theater reviews for The People's Voice, published by Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., who was at the time married to Isabelle. Later Fredi...
Last year, Springfest did not have a professional headliner and instead featured only student bands. In 2000, neo-swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy played at Springfest...
Louise Bourgeois’s triptych, “Obese Bulimic Anorexic” (2001), deals with similar issues of control, self-loathing and aggression in a slightly more obvious way. Composed of stuffed, flesh colored stockings, her figures resemble homemade dolls, maybe even a variant of the voodoo doll or a reference to the fertility goddess, the Venus of Willendorf. The three figures play out an ambiguous progression of weight gain, emotional trauma and aging. Their armless bodies are scarred with seams betraying surgery, deformity or self-mutilation...
...years ago, the last time Springfest had a prominent band, the Council paid Big Bad Voodoo Daddy $15,000—a sum then considered a bargain compared to the $23,000 paid for Violent Femmes...