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Despite the concrete sprawl of Japan’s postwar urban development, you can still find tranquillity in a brilliant-green, moss-covered temple garden or in the alcove of a traditional restaurant with its tatami-mat flooring, shielded from the other guests by shoji (paper screens) — remnants of a not-so-distant past.
The Designated Mourner is one of those sobering allegories set in the not-so-distant future in a country not unlike our own.
"At both papers," Conason writes, "there exists a feeling of indebtedness to Starr, who helped the Times and the Post escape libel judgments in the not-so-distant past."
Gattaca 's premise is the creation, in the not-so-distant future, of a genetic elite whose DNA has been rejiggered at the embryo stage to eliminate dispositions to such traits as premature baldness and attention-deficit disorder while heightening cheekbones and IQs.