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Sexual Fantasy. Bugaku opens on an empty stage suggestive of a court or an arena. The music begins with atonal violin glissandos so delicately feline that the sight of the first dancer coming on stage is a silent shock-like a slipper thrown at a cat. Five girls dance alone in a ritualistic largo, then five men replace them, moving with the elaborate logic of karate fighters. Each gesture is answered with architectural symmetry, each movement implies a countermovement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dance: Never Mind the Ginza | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Died. Emile Bustani. 55, founder and chairman of Lebanon's $60 million Contracting & Trading Co. (CAT), the Middle East's biggest and most important industrialist, a friend of the West who was a firm advocate of inter-Arab economic development; in the crash of his private plane; in the Mediterranean near Beirut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 22, 1963 | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

SINA also boasts a marching song, "Wings of Decency," which begins: "High on the wings of SINA/We fight for the future now/Let's clothe every pet and animal/Whether dog, cat, horse. or cow./G. Clifford Prout, our president./ He works for you and me,/So clothe all your pets and join the march/For worldwide decency...

Author: By Andrew T. Weil, | Title: College May Ban Animal Nudity | 3/9/1963 | See Source »

...gobbling the blueprints; dim Ginza bars have regular, unscheduled blackouts whenever rats gnaw through power lines, a never-failing taste treat. When a U.S. tourist was assured by the manager of a luxurious Ginza hotel that he couldn't possibly have seen a rat "as big as a cat" in his room, the American bought a rat trap, showed up at the reservation desk the next day triumphantly lugging a ¾-lb. Rattus norvegicus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: When They Start Playing Footsie, It's Time for a Girl to Quit | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

...Since vowels make so many sounds, she focused first on consonants and on only two vowel sounds: "I told Jonny that when two big round o's get together they look at each other and say 'oo!' and I taught him short a as in cat. Then I figured out sentences-A kangaroo has a hoola hoop. A rat and a fat raccoon. Dad has a bamboo hat. Can I pat a baboon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching: Why Jonny Can Read | 3/8/1963 | See Source »

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