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  • An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Edo's friend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever.

    Filmstalker: I Am in Love trailer online 2010

  • At the heart of the family is Tancredi's wife Emma Swinton, a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan, but she ends up in a passionate love affair with Edo's friend and partner Antonio.

    Check This Out: Beautiful Poster for Tilda Swinton's I Am Love « FirstShowing.net 2010

  • Azby Brown's new book Just Enough: Lessons in Living Green from Traditional Japan (Kodansha International 2010) convincingly argues that the growing movement for sustainable living in the twenty-first century can learn from Edo's land and resource practices and its culture of restraint.

    Japan's Edo Culture Inspires a Sustainable Post-Industrial Future 2010

  • A variant on the "pleasure outing" theme is made up of linear, bird's-eye vistas of the main street of Edo's officially sanctioned pleasure zone.

    Worldly Pleasures on Paper: 2008

  • Near the gates of the district were Edo's Kabuki theaters, offering vivid, day-long entertainments to hundreds of people of both sexes.

    Worldly Pleasures on Paper: 2008

  • With them, Jacques's last blood relations were gone, and so the story might have ended, but for Edo's widow, Marei von Saher.

    A Lost Legacy Belatedly Restored 2008

  • Edo's unnatural suspicion towards monks may or may not be the product of childhood trauma.

    Minoan, Cyrus Gordon and academic politics 2007

  • Toulouse-Lautrec and Renoir had recorded proletarian pleasures before him, as had the Japanese woodcut depicters of Edo's street life, like Hiroshige, whose influence can be felt especially in Van Gogh's brightly tinted Gate in the Paris Ramparts (1887).

    Determined Spirit Updike, John 2005

  • The Shogun's heir is dead, killed in Edo's pleasure quarter.

    Authorial self-reference at work sbisson 2004

  • There being nothing of intelligence Skeeter could say in response to that, he simply padded off barefooted across the marble floor of the Neo Edo's luxurious bathroom, wondering how in hell Kit Carson proposed to get Skeeter out of this one.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

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