Word: zens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whose buildings are decorous but also fetchingly strange, a little dreamlike. His rather subtle work has never got as much press as has the work of his more voguish Japanese peers Arata Isozaki and Tadao Ando (whose buildings are, respectively, Tokyo-by-way-of- Holl ywood lollapaloozas and ascetic Zen bunkers), but now that inequity seems moot: this week Maki was to be named the winner of the 1993 Pritzker Architecture Prize, the field's de facto Nobel...
...simple haircut is available from any barber shop near the Square, including Central Barber Shop, Great Cuts, Jerry's Underground and La Flamme. All offer inexpensive hair cuts, but each uses distinctly different approaches to the Zen of hair...
...away is the converted stable that is his meditation hall: after 20 years of study, Matthiessen was, three years ago, formally accredited as a Zen teacher. His Zen name -- Muryo, or Without Boundaries -- seems inspired. For what other Zen-minded patriarch can claim to be a founding editor of the Paris Review? How many other American novelists have written whole books in Caribbean patois that were influenced by the principles of classical Japanese art? How many other New Yorker writers have taken part-Cheyenne mercenaries for their alter egos? And which other scion of America's Eastern ruling class...
...more comprehensive understanding and application has been growing. On a more pragmatic level, fashioning a hybrid of theology and law also seemed to be a canny professional move. I had cut loose any religious moorings during adolescence, succumbing only occasionally to bouts of Proustian introspections and Zen austerity. I had neither subscribed to the common Harvard utopian fantasies which too often involve communal dining on trestle tables in drafty halls nor seriously considered a life of contemplation...
...emerge from hell into the Zen state of suspended agitation that Hal Hartley calls Long Island (though Simple Men was actually filmed in Texas). In the writer-director's third feature, following The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, a handsome bank robber (Robert Burke) and his decent younger brother (William Sage) search for their father, "the radical shortstop," who played for the Dodgers in the '50s and reputedly bombed the Pentagon in the '60s. Fugitive and busted on Long Island, the brothers fall in with the Hartley stock company of cagey women and forlorn men. To their deadpan surprise, the brothers...