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...stand opposite the everyday lives of Beijingers, making the name “Forbidden City” quite literal.I understood that contrast between the two Beijings on my first visit to China. But this summer, the most beautiful places I found were neither the most attractive parts nor the grittiest ones.Instead, the sites that were most appealing to me captured both of the city’s aesthetic extremes—modern ugliness and ethereal classicism—in microcosm. In doing so, they served as solitary points of departure from which I could begin to understand Beijing...
Late last night, a square in one of the city?s grittiest neighborhoods erupted in shouting and yelling. The noise reverberated throughout nearby streets, attracting curious or even some slightly frightened passersby. Scores of bare-chested men, swirling their shirts over their heads, were chanting ?Iraq! Iraq! Iraq...
...this juxtaposition of the miraculous and the ordinary?appropriate enough considering the Christmas setting?that gives Tokyo Godfathers its unique character. That even the grittiest scenes possess a careful beauty is the result of meticulous work by Kon's team of artists, considered by many to be the best in the business. Chief among them is Kon's longtime art director Nobutaka Ike. To prepare for the task of rending Tokyo into anim?, Ike spent months prowling the city with a digital camera. In the process he discovered the beauty of Tokyo's grungy, cluttered back alleys?normally passed over...
...don’t think it was a great effort by us in terms of defense,” Brown said. “But it was one of out grittiest performances...
...Hamburg, Germany, in the early 1960s with a band whose front line is Lennon-McCartney-Harrison because Lennon, in his wisdom, had decided that he would put at risk his dominance to build the strongest group. The way to think of those early Beatles is as one of the grittiest, nastiest, best punk bands ever, getting tighter by the night during sets that might last eight hours. "We were frothing at the mouth," Harrison remembered in The Beatles Anthology, a scrapbook of photos and reminiscences published last year, "because we had all these hours to play and the club owners...