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The high point of mingei came during the Edo period, a time of Japanese prosperity in isolation preceding Admiral Perry's naval foray, which in 1853 opened the door to the West. Folk art was austere, subdued, even restrained in its lack of showy flourish and its casual asymmetry...
The word for dogma in Chinese translates literally to "eight-legged." This comes from the eight-part essays of feudal times which candidates for office had to write. Each of the eight sections of the essay had to conform to an unflexible pattern, each completely prescribed in both form and...
A bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that...
Hidden Honeycomb. The running fight around the Catholic refugee village 40 miles southeast of Saigon (ironically, Binhgia translates as "Peaceful House") was a testimonial to Viet Cong cunning. Government paratroopers discovered one of their adversaries' main camps. Circular in shape, it was crisscrossed with trenches camouflaged by fast-growing...
"In practice," he explained, "this philosophy translates into a capitalist, laissez-faire government, protecting the rights of the individual, and never employing aggressive force."