Word: zens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CALLING ALL ZEN STUDS...
Evans spent six weeks in the Western U.S., tooling around in a rental car listening to tapes of Aaron Copland suites and Neil Young's Unplugged, interviewing Zen-like animal healers and watching degrading horse exorcisms. Because of his career troubles, Evans recalls, "I was vulnerable and moved by everything...
There is some comfort in the fact that Bill Clinton has an age problem too. With his first term more than half over, the President has left voters with a queasy feeling about his judgment and fortitude. His critics deride the "yuppie Zen President" who represents a feckless generation that protested wars while their elders fought them and lacks the confidence that comes from sacrifice...
...Zen and the art of control" is how one of Eastwood's veteran crewmen once described his working methods-a seeming indifference to auteurial imperatives that somehow gets him, most of the time, exactly what he wants: spontaneity and realism, qualities virtually synonymous in his mind. In practical terms, that means he's always hoping to get the shot he wants on the first take-rough magic being of more interest to him than the more smoothly polished kind...
...poet decorated all his autographs with a mysterious "AH" enclosed in a circle, symbolizing a Japanese Zen one-syllable summary of afterlifeappreciation. He even drew sunflowers reminiscentof his poem "Sunflower Sutra" for some lucky fans...