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...find any works here by Katsushika Hokusai or Ando Hiroshige, two giants of Japanese landscape prints. Less defensibly, you also won't find much about the enormous impact ukiyo-e had on Western artists, especially France's own Impressionists, or even on present-day Japanese comic-strip art forms manga and anim?. And a more adventuresome exhibition might even have added some footage from ukiyo-e-inspired films like Kenji Mizoguchi's masterful 1947 biopic Utamaro and his Five Women. But that's quibbling. Better simply to enjoy the bounty of color and line, to relish the beauty of women...
Nanbei street, a ragged strip of asphalt not far from the south bank of the Yellow River, used to be the embodiment of China's racial harmony. Each day, the Muslim call to prayer from Nanren village, populated with the Hui descendants of Silk Road traders, mixed in with the calls to commerce from the vegetable market in the neighboring Weitang village, inhabited by China's Han majority. As testament to its ethnic tolerance, Nanbei Street is lined with fresh-meat stands catering equally to the dietary preferences of the Han and the Hui. Last week, though, after a traffic...
...When the shooting stopped around 4 p.m., six protesters were dead and 17 injured. The women and children were led away, and the men?some 1,300 in all?ordered to strip off their shirts. Then they were handcuffed behind their backs and told to lie flat on the ground. Thai TV footage of the event shows soldiers kicking and beating the men. Several of the women told TIME that the men were forced to lie on the ground for more than an hour. No one offered them water. "It's [the Muslim fasting month of] Ramadan," says Vuttichai. "They...
...Yesterday, we switched over to a pure get-out-the-vote effort,” says Jamie Burnett, a operative for President Bush’s re-election campaign, during a pep talk Saturday to 20 Harvard Republican Club members aboard a yellow school bus in a strip-mall parking...
...Vegas and 10 other cities in August with an image of him, arms folded, preening in a tight California-state-flag T shirt. The message: ARNOLD SAYS: CALIFORNIA WANTS YOUR BUSINESS. (ACTUALLY, HE SAYS, "KAH-LI-FORNIA.") The grandstanding Governor even tooled along the Vegas Strip in an 18-wheel moving van to drive home the point...