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...WOOD TROPHY...
...there were three spaces, so I put my own drawing in," the genial Kawada explains. It's a thumb-sized symbol of cultural exchange, and one that is amplified when five Sydney Symphony musicians proceed to perform a sprightly version of Percy Grainger's Walking June in Kawada's wood-paneled lounge. The occasion is a send-off for the orchestra on its imminent Japanese tour?part of the 2006 Year of Exchange between the two countries?and Kawada waxes lyrical on the subject. "Music is the best way to have a communication between people who have different cultures...
...intentions, getting inside his darting, catch-me-if-you-can progress, from Cubism to Neoclassicism, from Surrealism to Guernica, was an all-important matter to that small but crucial category of American artists who had no use for the approved manner of the moment, American Scene realism. Grant Wood's farm folk and Thomas Hart Benton's small-town cuties were fine, if you didn't care about what painting could be. Although Picasso never set foot on American soil, in the intense conclaves of this would-be American avant-garde, his example hung in the air like the moon...
...stack of 18 best sellers. He has a 1,000-acre farm outside Charlottesville with 15 horses (Grisham moved his family from Oxford, Miss., after too many fans dropped by; he even surprised a Japanese couple getting married on his lawn) and a vast office with blond wood floors, movie memorabilia and sliding, brushed-metal screens...
...fellow parliamentarians are not completely calculating in what causes they address. If that were not so, real issues like mercury poisoning, tainted blood supplies, asbestos-related illnesses and hundreds of other skeletons in the LDP cupboard would never have been denied or deferred decade after decade. David John Wood Chikushino, Japan...