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Sunday: In a Central League showdown, the first-place Yomiuri Giants beat the second-place Hiroshima Carp 3-1, making up for their worst ever defeat the day before (a 19-5 loss to the Carp). Wednesday: Orix Blue Wave superstar Ichiro Suzuki (left), who tends bonsai in his off-hours, broke a 43-year-old record with his 192nd hit of the season (George Sisler set the U.S. record of 257 in 1920). Friday: Suzuki went hitless as the Pacific Division's first-place Seibu Lions beat the second-place Orix 6-1, moving four games ahead. Rain...
...sincerity and humor. "Major League II" recycles the one-liners and situations that may have worked before but have been simply worn out from overuse. The movie does not even attempt to reupholster the cliches. How many more times can Japanese characters be depicted as fanatical samurais or as bonsai-loving mystics before the laughs run out? Or how about the lumbering rookie who hails from the cultural vacuum of Midwestern farmland? And the proctology jokes...
Last Sunday, we paid another visit to directress/raconteur Erica Werner in her faux-Titian dorm room. Outside it was cold and dreary, but inside we found Ms. Werner in fine fettle, cooing merrily at her Bonsai tree. Clad in a chain-metal sheath and matching elbow-length gloves, both by Gaultier, with hair by Vidal Sassoon, Ms. Werner discoursed savvily on topic ranging from the Knights Templar to the common cold. As always, we were impressed by her smarts. But we were not where we were--that is, in the presence of genius disguised as high fashion--to engage...
...equity stake in twelve of Rockefeller Center's buildings in the year 2000. If the holders execute that option, Mitsubishi Estate's ownership in the storied center will slip into minority status -- and any fears that the towering Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center will be replaced by a tiny bonsai plant in Mitsubishi Center will prove to have been misplaced...
...been a deep love of nature. Typical is the story of the monk Ryokan who slept under mosquito netting in the summer not to prevent being bitten by an insect but to avoid squashing one inadvertently while he slept. The Japanese, though, have never been passive conservationists. Consider the bonsai, the tiny trees that are shaped over generations into living pieces of sculpture. The bonsai represent the landscape architect's respect for nature, but also the notion that nature is at its best when shaped by the hand...