Word: yon
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Photo Courtesy Yon Barna emphasize their emotional and psychologicalstates. When Ivan makes a speech, the eyes of thelisteners are drawn to him just as the lines ofthe nave draw our vision to the center of thechurch. In another scene, where Ivan issupervising the movements of the soldiers, hestands on top of a hill. The horizontal tilt ofhis face crosses the perpendicular of the soldierswending their way below, forming the image of across. This use of the camera and the staging ofthe pictures are remarkable...
...harder life form. Sit with him at a restaurant in Memphis, where he is shooting the John Grisham thriller The Client, and ask something innocuous, like what he reads. "The New York Times once a week . . . and also some secret trash books that will go unnamed, stashed hither and yon. I don't trust you enough to tell you the titles of all the books I'm reading." Well, which of his parts might he call a breakthrough role? A frown. "Breakfast roll? Oh, breakthrough role. I don't have time to think that way. I've never lived...
...nearly enough, to send their children our of the public schools. The public school system Bush and Quayle are dreaming of is a charity, a school by default. If your parents are destitute and you can't even afford (never mind get admitted to) the local church school, yon can always go to public school. With even less money and with few people above the poverty level attending them, no one will bother to fix the schools. Many of the wealthier people who run governments will have their children safely in a private school...
...YON-BUN NO SAN" (THREE-fourths), says the eager second-grader as he holds up a card with the fraction spelled out in Japanese hiragana script and numerals. Then a classmate selects a segmented triangle that illustrates the fraction. "Atte imasuka?" (Is that correct?) asks the teacher from Tokyo. "Hai," says the class in unison as little hands go up to answer the next question...
North Korean Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk sounded anything but upbeat as he described the mood of "gloom" after 15 months of fruitless discussions between Pyongyang and Seoul. But at the fifth round of talks last week, Yon's spirits took a sudden upturn when his South Korean host and counterpart, Chung Won Shik, dropped an unexpected secret: removal of the last American nuclear weapon on Korean soil was complete. That announcement, long sought by Pyongyang, broke the negotiating logjam. Twenty hours later, following an all- night session, the two sides announced agreement on a nonaggression accord that in effect...