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...spectators are likely to remain otherwise speechless at the subtleties of winter sports. They will not be helped by the glossolalia that accompanies the coverage of the Games, including such fascinating but baffling terms as Axels and Lutzes, telemark and super-Gs. Enlightened appreciation will also be hindered by Zen-like axioms ("the fastest way to ski cross-country is to skate") and nonsensical riddles ("What sport has contestants who practice black magic and wait their turns in a morgue?"). As a guide for the perplexed, TIME has gathered a number of these mysteries and provided solutions to them. Welcome...
...experiments naive, but beware. This show has a message in it, like a rock in a snowball. What do the invariably polite Japanese really think of the dozens of American artists in the past few decades who have tried to adopt the forms, or at least the rhetoric, of Zen brush painting? What do Americans' earnest spoutings about calligraphy, meaning any aesthetic scribble, convey to real calligraphers? Provincialism is a two-way street...
...perkiness and elder-statesmouse status (recently celebrated in a 17- ; day 59th birthday party) assure him success in a culture that has respect for old age and a soft spot for the cute. The little fellow's image is everywhere in Japan -- on Mitsubishi bankbooks, in framed photos within Zen temples, even on Emperor Hirohito's wristwatch. "Mickey Mouse is an actor," explains the slogan on the cover of a Mickey Mouse diary, "and as such he can do anything; he can play any role...
...sharp and scary. Scares Williams too. "When it works," says the Chicago-born comic, 36, "it's like . . . freedom! Suddenly these things are coming out of you. You're in control, but you're not. The characters are coming through you. Even I'm going, 'Whoa!' It's that Zen lock. It's channeling with Call Waiting...
Dennis Orsen's reasons for being at the festival are mainly evangelical. A balding Lutheran pastor in a pale suit, the peripatetic Orsen recently settled in nearby Steubenville and found the local culture as difficult to crack as a Zen riddle. Someone suggested he read James Wright. And has this helped at all? "There's one poem about football -- when I saw that, I said to myself, boy, that explains a lot of what I'm working with," he answers...