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...Japan and are having trouble laying your hands on a first edition of Jack Kerouac's On The Road, or Allen Ginsberg's Howl, then consider a trip to Cow Books, www.cowbooks.jp. Specializing in countercultural works, the Tokyo bookshop is a repository for treasures that will make beatnik bibliophiles weep with happiness. Here's a copy of Daniel Seymour's cult 1971 photography book, A Loud Song; there's a surviving Organic Design in Home Furnishings,[an error occurred while processing this directive] the exquisitely rare catalog that U.S architect Eliot F. Noyes wrote to accompany the highly influential...
...relates the awful particulars of the case: "Now ain't the time for your tears." At the end, he spits out the judge's obscenely lenient decision: "And handed out strongly for penalty and repentance, / William Zanzinger with a six months' sentence." Dylan's message: Don't weep for one blameless soul brutally, thoughtlessly killed; weep for the system that, after due consideration, shrugs away a rich white man's murder of a poor black woman. "Now's the time for your tears...
...Mitchell's memoir-like time capsule is the photographic fidelity with which it captures Britain at a turning point. Here are the Asteroids games, the Connors-McEnroe matches on TV, the Jean Michel Jarre LPs and screenings of Chariots of Fire. Teenagers canoodle to Three Times a Lady and weep over Kramer vs. Kramer. Yet those familiar details are lit up with a sense of magic that makes Middle England seem more wondrous than Middle-earth. "Birdsong's the thoughts of a wood. Beautiful, it was, but boys aren't allowed to say 'beautiful' 'cause it's the gayest word...
...handed lemons, make lemonade,'" says Mora, who has not seen the film. "But more often it's simply Operation Da Vinci Code." The document produced at that January meeting had three talking points: 1) Turn the glare of publicity into a proselytizing opportunity. "We can either weep, or we can sing our song," says Mora, postulating that some people, learning about the nonfictional Opus Dei, will think, Well, it's not that bad. 2) Reach out for allies: "This film offends all Catholics, not just Opus Dei. It says the entire church is a big lie." 3) Engage only...
...population of 2 million cannot be fathomed. What does it do to people to walk along Monrovia's sandy beaches and have to step around skulls and rib cages that are only half submerged in the sand? Taking stock of the toll, a Monrovia cleric said simply, "I weep for this country." If only tears could start the healing...