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...East Wind Melts the Ice, her fourth and latest book, is a spirited and graceful example of how to live Japanese, you could say, without losing an American accent. Dalby began composing this 10th century-style pillow book about her 21st century Californian life four years ago, creating a diary of the seasons divided into the 72 five-day segments of an ancient Chinese almanac. She even wrote parts of the book first in Japanese. On its surface, her gardener's journal is a casual, wandering set of two- or three-page mini-essays on mushrooms, ruby-throated hummingbirds...
Tiny tealights flickered on the steps of Memorial Church last night, the wind choking a flame every now and then, as students remembered the soldiers and civilians who had been killed in the war in Iraq. The vigil was one in a series of campus events staged by student groups to mark the fourth anniversary of the war’s beginning. At the vigil, students read statements written by friends of slain American soldiers, followed by a short silence from the audience, which numbered more than 50. Earlier, members of the Harvard College Democrats and other students spent...
...Capriccio—Presto con Slancio,” the second movement of the piece, in 1953. With an invigorating prestissimo, Lipkind delivered the love-struck composer’s return to reality with notes that flew so quickly from the bow, it was as if a rustling wind blew into the room and ran with the scale...
...purest form of the social weepie is usually a European art film. And Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley--which won the top prize at Cannes last year, has played at film festivals on four continents and is now in U.S. theaters--is an ideal Exhibit...
...such groundbreaking films as “Apocalypse Now,” “Blow-Up,” and “Pulp Fiction.” The newest entry added to this list of historic cinema is Ken Loach’s “The Wind That Shakes The Barley,” an incredibly wan and uninspired drama chronicling the Irish Civil War of the 1920s. Although the Cannes jury embraced the film, the latest offering from the veteran British award-winning filmmaker falls far below expectations. Named after a 19th century Irish folk song...