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...when she first arrived. The hours. The pressure to go out on dohans. She had worked for two years on BA's long-haul routes to Africa and the Americas, but she had seldom been away from her family home - where she still lived with her mother and younger sister and brother - in the London suburb of Sevenoaks, Kent, for more than four days in a row. After arriving in Tokyo, she phoned and e-mailed family almost daily, telling them she was homesick...
...West Yellowstone, Mt. There was a plane ticket, a hotel reservation, a rental car, and about 40 people who knew I was going. I didn't see any way to back out, even though I felt like all the plans had been made by some other guy (a younger, faster, much more eager other guy). In final days before I left, I drove back my growing feelings of doubt with caffeine, a sense of humor, and by "compartmentalizing" my doubts (of course, only criminals and drug addicts use "denial...
...leave a large mass of output when you die--though this, mercifully in some cases, does not always succeed. Vermeer painted very little--or at least very few of his paintings have survived. The present count is about 34. And because his work had little influence on younger artists, and wasn't much written about even in Holland until the early 19th century, and was seen by so few people, it languished. His reputation didn't really revive until the late 19th century, helped (as old painting so often is) by enthusiasms for new art--for Realism and especially Impressionism...
...visitation, popping up from nowhere. Every artist has aesthetic parents, brothers and sometimes offspring. But genius tends to be unpredictable, and a puzzling thing about Vermeer is that artistically he had no real progeny and no certain parentage. Nobody knows who taught him to paint, and his influence on younger Delft artists is too slight to bother with. He did no teaching, and no one imitated him. Moreover, most of the other Delft painters in his time (with one striking exception) pale by comparison with...
...other words, he isn't likely to turn Japan upside down. True, he did appoint a Cabinet that is younger and includes more women and more non-politicians than usual--notably Japan's first female Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka. But it's hard to find a clear pattern: one of his economic advisers favors corporate restructuring and repairing the banking system; another leans to traditional pork-barrel politics. Koizumi's immediate problem is that dramatic reforms take time to implement, and the Japanese public that adores him today will turn on him tomorrow if he doesn't produce results...