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...works. He commissioned not just Jakuchu's flowers but also the fine mid-Edo-style door screens in the building's more public areas, where the priest would receive guests. Painted in the late 18th century by Okyo Maruyama, each screen has a different theme, such as cranes, tigers, wise men and waterfalls. Okyo was an important transitional figure in Japanese art, as painting moved toward a more lifelike presentation. His simple brushwork and relatively muted color palate harken back to previous eras, but these screens, especially the one depicting the wise men, reveal a newfound confidence in the manipulation...
...There were tough par threes and tricky par fours,” Wu said. “I didn’t hit the ball well at all, but I did a good job of grinding it out score-wise...
Part of the difficulty are the two massive Secret Service bodyguards that her two bodyguards are always lurking around protecting Sam. Although one is almost constantly mute—might he possibly end the movie saying something incredibly wise?—codename “Charm Bracelet” resents the intrusive protection...
Charlize Theron, in a starkly contrasting follow-up to her role in Monster, embodies this second kind of idealism as Gilda Bessé. Gilda is the kind of clichéd wise-cracking beauty that can only exist in movies: she’s bold, intelligent, entirely immodest and incredibly provocative. Her only fault, as far as her love interest Guy (Stuart Townsend) can see, is that she lives “in a cocoon” and completely ignores the caustic contemporary politics that consume his passions; she doesn’t care about anything or anyone beyond herself...
...first time I tried to interview Steve Stepak, I failed miserably. He was far too deeply involved in a rigorous game of chess to notice a would-be interviewer edging uncomfortably close to the table. Feeling somewhat less than the Barbara Walters (with a dash of street-wise smarts) I’d fashioned myself up to be, I retreated...