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...monk's cell in a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan, is not your ordinary writer's retreat. But then TIME Contributor Pico Iyer is not your ordinary writer. For one thing, he travels a lot. For the past eight months he has used Kyoto -- either the temple or a tiny apartment in the ancient city -- as a base camp for his forays around Japan and into the Himalayas. Iyer's trips have provided grist for a book in progress and recent TIME stories on the Dalai Lama and Tokyo Disneyland. "I try to catch the inner stirrings...
...professions include psychiatry, building contracting, and teaching. One is a lawyer; his wife said he went into law to work for the good guys, but ended up working for the bad guys. Another man, who used to wear his long hair in an Indian braid and who was into Zen Buddhism, now recommends wine at the Ritz-Carlton...
...collections showed them to be as restless and clever as ever. Kawakubo sent out dozens of outfits with unexpected lapels and seams like overgrown ski trails, most in combinations of black, red and orange, so the show seemed like a massive box of spilled Halloween candy. Yamamoto, the Zen master of the subtle change, struck up a parade of flowing black coats with closings as challenging as Rubik's Cube...
...coaches also received nicknames. Dave "Gandalf" Fish, who is "Zen Master" during the squash season. And Assistant Coach Steve "Bilbo" Gerstenfeld...
...something of a mystery. Gravitas is a secret of character and grasp and experience, a force in the eye, the voice, the bearing. Sometimes -- as with, say, Winston Churchill -- it announces itself as eloquence, and sometimes it proclaims itself as a silence, a suspension full of either menace or Zen. The Japanese believe a man's gravitas emanates from densities of the unspoken...