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...hand-printed from wood blocks, encompass the best of ukiyo-e - "images of the floating world" of geishas, Kabuki actors and pleasure houses that flourished in 18th and 19th century Edo, as Tokyo was known. These include works by such giants as Utagawa Hiroshige, Katsushika Hokusai and Kitagawa Utamaro. Rarer still are the fierce battle scenes from the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-95 that Monet collected, as well as images of Westerners relaxing in Yokohama, the port city that became the focus of Japanese contact with the West. Monet had several of Hiroshige's scenes from the classic Japanese...
...glares are rarer these days. It's only October, but the Bears have established themselves as the NFL team to beat. Through the first five weeks, they were not only undefeated but had outscored opponents 156-36, including a 37-6 whipping of the Seattle Seahawks, last year's NFC champs. "I just don't see any flaws on this team," says ESPN analyst Ron Jaworski...
...tortoise’s pace—or, perhaps, a grandfather’s. For those who think of Cash as family, this is comforting; for the rest, it’s vaguely condescending and distinctly boring. Regardless, hearing an artist compose his own eulogy is rare, rarer still for an artist of such influence. Cash’s malaise can’t hide the complexity that made him legendary, and a legend’s swan song shouldn’t be ignored. —Reviewer Nicholas K. Tabor can be reached at ntabor@fas.harvard.edu...
...March describing her school’s efforts to maintain a male-female balance. She wrote that 55 percent of applicants to Kenyon are women, “a proportion that is steadily increasing.”“The reality is that because young men are rarer, they’re more valued applicants,” Britz wrote. She went on to describe the “hint of desperation in the voices of admissions officers” when their campuses become 60 percent, or more, female.“Once you become decidedly female...
Countless baseballs bear DiMaggio's signature. Rarer is this ball signed by Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987 and cherished by DiMaggio as "the only two autographs I ever sought...