Word: moonlighting
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...ostensibly mundane domestic affairs - far cries from the hard-boiled yakuza netherworld of conventional Japanese crime fiction, where women mostly inhabit peripheral positions as prostitutes or femmes fatales. Like Natsuo Kirino, whose best-selling 1997 novel Out chronicles a band of disaffected middle-aged bento-box factory workers who moonlight as murderesses, Nonami places women at the center of her work. As the author of some 50 books, she is more prolific than Kirino, although only one previous work has been translated into English. That's The Hunter, a fetching police procedural that follows Detective Takako Otomichi as she struggles...
...remember it just as clearly as when it happened. Our train from Auckland arrived at the National Park station and there was snow everywhere, there was snow on the railroad line and there was snow on the trees. It was a bright moonlit night, and the moonlight was a brilliant, marvelous sight to me and it was really the most exciting thing that ever happened to me up to that time - us rushing around skiing. I found I was reasonably energetic and I could rush around and make snow balls, whatever. That was really the start of my enthusiasm...
...calculating that the authorities would expect me to head south to South Africa or west to Botswana, drove 373 miles north to Zambia. An hour after nightfall, the road became muddy. It seemed to be raining. A rumbling filled the air. I looked left, and there, silver in the moonlight, framed between two cliffs, was Victoria Falls...
...lighting was impressive. Never was the stage the same color twice in the performance—its hues were constantly changing along with the characters’ moods, in a fantasia of emotions within the forest. The floor was often covered in spots of light, imitating the flood of moonlight flowing through the thick enclosure of trees overhead...
Help out locally owned businesses in neighboring Inman Square tonight at the Shop Inman by Moonlight promotion event. Local retailers will offer specials and keep their doors open late. 1369 Coffee House will feature live music from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m., Cambridge high-schoolers will perform Christmas scenes in the windows of Stellabella Toys, and East Coast Grill will be offering cider on the sidewalk. Thurs., Dec. 14 from 7 p.m. until 12 a.m. Inman Square...