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Kupersmith Florist has set up an elaborate window display of bonsai plants and white lights which has "attracted a lot of attention," according to manager Al Brown. Emack & Bolio's has stocked up on holiday ice cream flavors including egg nog, rum, candy cane and the old traditional yuletide desert product cranberry ice cream...
Though the Reagan Administration has since 1981 coaxed the Japanese into five packages of trade liberalizations covering hundreds of products from golf balls to nuclear reactors, American sales in Japan are still as stunted as bonsai plants: $21.8 billion in 1981, only $1.8 billion more last year. In contrast, Japanese sales in the U.S. have streaked upward: $39.9 billion in 1981, a healthy $20.5 billion more...
...jonquils and daffodils and, of course, all the perfect cherry blossoms. They go on and on about the dogwoods, the fields of hyacinths and azaleas, the quarter-million tulips planted near the Tidal Basin. Special pilgrimages are urged on visitors: not just the National Arboretum-precious camellias! amazing bonsai!-but the wonders of Dumbarton Oaks and the little garden at the foot of Capitol Hill. Washington, in sum, is very serious, even about its plants...
...Chris' chief antagonist. Peter Weller plays Sam with scary perfection. Weller, who most recently portrayed the brain suergon-rqckstar-world hero in Buckaroo Bonsai, switches easily but believably from a dreamy drifter to a dangerous madman, with much of the same charge seen in last year's Star...
This has been going on since the 6th century, with the result that few of the accumulated images that spell "typical Japan" to a foreigner were invented by the Japanese themselves. Zen Buddhism was an import, and pagodas and brush calligraphy and bonsai trees (originally known to the Chinese as penjing). Likewise the microchip and the small, inexpensive car. Tempura, the name of one of the Japanese dishes most popular among foreigners, is a mangled Latin word that refers to the Portuguese Catholic propensity to eat fish on Fridays as penance, as distinct from the Japanese practice of eating...