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In 1999, she and Mr. DuBrul bought a house in Darien, on Long Island Sound. Water, sky and their shifting light are often reflected in her later imagery.
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America’s Biggest Cities Were Already Losing Their Allure. What Happens Next?
By SABRINA TAVERNISE and SARAH MERVOSH
The urge among some residents to leave because of the coronavirus may be temporary. But it follows a deeper, more powerful demographic trend.
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Fixes: For Teenage Smokers, Removing the Allure of the Pack
The way to keep teenagers from smoking is to make it uncool. Mandating plain packaging, as Australia plans to do, will help.
Group Says Newspapers Aren't Dead, They're Alluring
By TANZINA VEGA
An
ad campaign by the Newspaper Association of America, "Smart is the new
sexy," will extol the virtues of newspapers as something that makes
people more informed.
Seven Days on the Queen Mary 2
By DWIGHT GARNER
Sex, food and the allure of the wintry North Atlantic aboard the biggest ocean liner in the world.
Google's deal underscores the allure of a business model pioneered by one of the company's rivals: Apple.
But in the end, China's allure -- the country already had more than 100 million Internet users in 2005 -- proved too great for Google to resist. In 2006, it launched a special version of its Web site for mainland China, google.cn, whose results were scrubbed to remove links to sites the Chinese government found politically objectionable.
Nostalgic diorama recalls allure of 1960s Ueno
BY AZUSA ITO STAFF WRITER
A large diorama shows a street near Shinobazunoike pond in Tokyo's Ueno district in the late 1960s. (Photos by Azusa Ito)
A reproduction of the previous building that housed the Izuei Honten eel restaurant
Izuei Honten, an eel restaurant in Tokyo's Taito Ward that has been in operation since the Edo Period (1603-1867), is serving up a dollop of warm nostalgia along with its old-fashioned tasty food.
Folks are thronging to reminisce over miniature scenes in 1/80 scale that recapture the old Ueno district of the late 1960s.
Lit to show the sunset glinting on Shinobazunoike pond at Ueno Park in around 1965, at the height of the bustling Showa Era (1926-1989), the diorama is attracting visits from people who knew the area back then.
The diorama is the second one that Kazuo Doi, the 67-year-old president of Izuei, asked diorama artist Takaki Yamamoto, 46, to recreate.
Yamamoto, who lives in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, is noted for a series of dioramas he created of Showa scenes.
His first creation for Doi was of Izuei Honten's previous building, which was rebuilt in 1984. It shows in loving detail the old-fashioned, two-story wooden restaurant, complete with food displayed in the windows.
The new diorama, measuring 90 centimeters wide by 70 cm deep, shows a section of Ueno Park and its famous pond in tiny detail.
Yamamoto even included Toei streetcars and the monorail that still runs today inside Ueno Zoological Gardens. Soft light falls from inside the street stalls lined up along the pond's edge.
Doi is originally from Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture. Arriving in the metropolis as a young man, he worked at Tokyo metropolitan government's Bureau of Transportation as a subway driver from 1964 to 1971.
He used to travel by train back to his hometown for holidays. On one such trip, he met his future wife, Yoshiko, now 74, who was traveling with mutual friends. Her father owned Izuei Honten.
After they married, Doi left his job and began working at the eel restaurant.
"A streetcar track used to run through this area," Doi recalled recently as he walked along a street near the pond. "It was Line 37 and connected Komagome with Mita via Ueno."
The streetcars were thronged. The Ueno zoo monorail service, which started operating in 1957, was the first in Japan.
Doi met Yamamoto at a filmfest in 2008 that showcased a movie featuring dioramas created by Yamamoto. Soon after that, the artist created the miniature model of the original Izuei Honten. Doi wanted "to remember what the old building looked like before it was rebuilt."
When Doi and Yamamoto walked around the area, they talked about how it used to look when the streetcars were running. They got along well and began making enthusiastic plans for a second diorama with a streetcar and the monorail train running near the Shinobazunoike pond.
However, few photographs of that era remain today to show how the area looked back in those days. Yamamoto had to recreate the landscape based on Doi's memories.
The diorama artist calculated the measurements of the streetcar based on photographs. He consulted with Doi on the details as he designed the tram.
"In old comics aimed at teenage boys, monorail trains were always featured as illustrations of what the future would look like. I think it was everybody's dream," Yamamoto said. "This diorama depicts the shift in eras from streetcars to monorails."
"Back then, everybody rode the Toei streetcar services," Doi said. "I'll be glad if many people can recall their warm memories (of the Showa Era) when they view the diorama."
inimitable
(ĭ-nĭm'ĭ-tə-bəl)
adj.
Defying imitation; matchless.
inimitably in·im'i·ta·bly adv.
allure 引誘人
Both Lyndon Johnson and Nixon were fixated on J.F.K.'s inimitable allure.
SHANGHAI may no longer have the raffish mystique of its early 20th-century incarnation as a place of guns, girls and gamblers, but a different mythology, no less alluring, has taken its place.
Folks are thronging to reminisce over miniature scenes in 1/80 scale that recapture the old Ueno district of the late 1960s.
Lit to show the sunset glinting on Shinobazunoike pond at Ueno Park in around 1965, at the height of the bustling Showa Era (1926-1989), the diorama is attracting visits from people who knew the area back then.
The diorama is the second one that Kazuo Doi, the 67-year-old president of Izuei, asked diorama artist Takaki Yamamoto, 46, to recreate.
Yamamoto, who lives in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward, is noted for a series of dioramas he created of Showa scenes.
His first creation for Doi was of Izuei Honten's previous building, which was rebuilt in 1984. It shows in loving detail the old-fashioned, two-story wooden restaurant, complete with food displayed in the windows.
The new diorama, measuring 90 centimeters wide by 70 cm deep, shows a section of Ueno Park and its famous pond in tiny detail.
Yamamoto even included Toei streetcars and the monorail that still runs today inside Ueno Zoological Gardens. Soft light falls from inside the street stalls lined up along the pond's edge.
Doi is originally from Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture. Arriving in the metropolis as a young man, he worked at Tokyo metropolitan government's Bureau of Transportation as a subway driver from 1964 to 1971.
He used to travel by train back to his hometown for holidays. On one such trip, he met his future wife, Yoshiko, now 74, who was traveling with mutual friends. Her father owned Izuei Honten.
After they married, Doi left his job and began working at the eel restaurant.
"A streetcar track used to run through this area," Doi recalled recently as he walked along a street near the pond. "It was Line 37 and connected Komagome with Mita via Ueno."
The streetcars were thronged. The Ueno zoo monorail service, which started operating in 1957, was the first in Japan.
Doi met Yamamoto at a filmfest in 2008 that showcased a movie featuring dioramas created by Yamamoto. Soon after that, the artist created the miniature model of the original Izuei Honten. Doi wanted "to remember what the old building looked like before it was rebuilt."
When Doi and Yamamoto walked around the area, they talked about how it used to look when the streetcars were running. They got along well and began making enthusiastic plans for a second diorama with a streetcar and the monorail train running near the Shinobazunoike pond.
However, few photographs of that era remain today to show how the area looked back in those days. Yamamoto had to recreate the landscape based on Doi's memories.
The diorama artist calculated the measurements of the streetcar based on photographs. He consulted with Doi on the details as he designed the tram.
"In old comics aimed at teenage boys, monorail trains were always featured as illustrations of what the future would look like. I think it was everybody's dream," Yamamoto said. "This diorama depicts the shift in eras from streetcars to monorails."
"Back then, everybody rode the Toei streetcar services," Doi said. "I'll be glad if many people can recall their warm memories (of the Showa Era) when they view the diorama."
A shift light is a warning lamp fitted to vehicles in order to indicate to the driver that maximum revolutions per minute (r/min) has almost been reached. Ideally a shift lamp will illuminate at the engine speed beyond that which delivers the maximum power, measured in for example kilowatt (kW) or brake horsepower (BHP), such that the power before and after shifting is the same. Accelerating the engine beyond this point is not conducive to rapid acceleration. In use a shift light allows the driver to judge the exact point that a gear change should be carried out without having to glance down at the tachometer. This also increases safety for the driver by keeping his focus on the track at all times.
inimitable
(ĭ-nĭm'ĭ-tə-bəl)
adj.
Defying imitation; matchless.
[Middle English, from Latin inimitābilis : in-, not; see in-1 + imitābilis, imitable (from imitārī, to imitate).]
inimitability in·im'i·ta·bil'i·ty or in·im'i·ta·ble·ness n.inimitably in·im'i·ta·bly adv.
allure 引誘人
Both Lyndon Johnson and Nixon were fixated on J.F.K.'s inimitable allure.
- 発音記号[əlúər | əljúə]
- [動](他)〈人（の心）を〉魅惑する, ひく.
━━[名][U][C]((文))魅力, 魅惑；((略式))性的魅力
［中フランス語alurer （a-へ＋lurer誘惑する）. △LURE］alluringSHANGHAI may no longer have the raffish mystique of its early 20th-century incarnation as a place of guns, girls and gamblers, but a different mythology, no less alluring, has taken its place.
allurement[al・lure・ment]
- 発音記号[əlúərmənt | əljúər-] [名]
1 [U]魅力；魅惑すること.
2 魅惑するもの, 魅力のある点；好餌(じ).
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