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...shuffling wave continues down Jizo-dori, past peddlers of hair nets, wigs and hairpieces, to a red "80" hanging above Echigoya, the street's oldest store. The number refers to the years the kimono seller turned women's-clothing retailer has been in business. Mr. Tamura has worked the store for 30 of them. He says that styles on the floor are now skewed for a "younger look," because women in their 60s and 70s are more fashionable than those born during the Taisho period (1912-26). Female shoppers aren't necessarily looking for deals, says Tamura, but nothing...
...Slow Motion The show's curators have suspended a 1929 Fiat Hydroplane above one room and surrounded it with second-wave Futurist canvases from the same period. Their gravity-defying shapes were intended to celebrate aeronautical motion, but these paintings lack the meticulous artistry that characterized their forerunners. Still, almost 500 years after Leonardo da Vinci conceived the world's first flying machine, this gallery is a shrine to Italy's aircraft industry, which flourished in the 1930s, sustained by Fascism's colonial ambitions...
...begin with. He was probably at sea, perhaps 2,000 years ago, because he was being carted away by the Romans from Greece. Has he found a permanent home at last? Perhaps, but I never look at his upraised hand without wondering if he's getting ready to wave goodbye...
...Obama wave came to the Texas Capitol in Austin on Friday for a rally on the same spot near the Texas Capitol where George W. Bush followers huddled in a cold rain almost eight years ago for the longest election night on record. Some of Obama's most popular lines of the night bashed President Bush as the crowd - estimated variously at between 15,000 to 30,000 - listened rapturously for almost an hour. A jumbo screen broadcast his image down Congress Avenue, not far from the city's nightclub district, and one homemade sign read: "The Beginning Is Near...
...This helps Kyle see the puck much better, which is great for our team, and I commend our D for working hard and doing a great job down there.”MISTER ROGERS’ NEIGHBORHOODAs his defense scrambled to cope with the pressure of a wave of Princeton power plays, Rogers went to work ensuring that it would be an uphill climb for the Tigers, providing the entirety of his team’s offense with a hat trick.“Obviously [the hat trick] was a great feeling,” Rogers said...