Word: zens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sharp contrast to Weinstein's brutish antics, Sundance founder Robert Redford's influence over the indie world is portrayed as Zen-like, though the actor's enigmatic, elusive nature keeps him mostly in shadows throughout the book. (Unlike Weinstein, Redford refused to talk to Biskind.) Still, Redford emerges long enough to double-cross his former protege, Steven Soderbergh, whose sex, lies, and videotape was shown in Park City in 1989, by plucking the movie Quiz Show out from under him. Redford sabotages his own efforts to launch a Sundance Cinemas chain by hooking up with a financially unstable partner...
...Steve possessed a very rare combination of artistic appreciation, creativity and science and engineering acumen that found fertile ground to germinate in the field of holography,” said Klug. “But he also had a clear passion for many things Japanese, including Zen gardens...
Some people might simply say that Mrs. Cheney is as deluded as her husband. But I think that Lynne’s calm, zen-like denial is her way of coping with public humiliation...
...Cambridge Zen Center’s weekly Dharma Talk, a meditation novice was readily made to feel at home. A group of 30 participated in a brief meditation and listened to an instructor tell stories and discourse on Zen and life in general. Afterwards people posed questions about issues like death, depression, choices and relationships. The topics were heavy, but provided meaty food for thought...
Conveniently located in Central Square, the Zen Center is an untapped resource for alternative Harvard housing—many of its practitioners live there. If 5 a.m. wake-up calls don’t appeal, sign up for one of their intensive monthly weekend retreats to get a feel for the Zen life, or just go to their Monday beginner meditation classes at 6:45 p.m. Zen is considered the “dogma-less” Buddhism, and is not heavily based on scriptures or texts, so the CZC is a great place for meditators of any religious persuasion...