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...FENG, Shanghai and New York City-based fashion designer Lounge on an opium bed at Face Bar, a renovated 1930s-era villa in central Shanghai, where a favorite tipple is the Chinese Whisper?a Midori and Cointreau cocktail. Stroll past stores selling bolts of Chinese silk to Restaurant 1931 on Maoming Road, where the traditionally clad waitresses evoke the glamour of old Shanghai. The fried dumplings aren't bad, either. Then catch some music at the House of Blues and Jazz, owned by a local TV personality, before ending the night with a typical Shanghai treat: a relaxing massage...
...balls in a sweet wine broth. To finish the evening, check out modern Shanghai at a hot new bar called Mimosa, located on the south bank of Suzhou Creek. HAN FENG, Shanghai and New York City?based fashion designer Lounge on an opium bed at Face Bar, a renovated 1930s-era villa in central Shanghai, where a favorite tipple is the Chinese Whisper - a Midori and Cointreau cocktail. Stroll past stores selling bolts of Chinese silk to Restaurant 1931 on Maoming Road, where the traditionally clad waitresses evoke the glamour of old Shanghai. The fried dumplings aren't bad, either...
...Next were Russia, Turkey and Argentina; Brazil teetered on the brink. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley, the pride of the U.S. economy, was crashing, while entire sectors of the so-called new economy disintegrated. And Japan, the world's second largest economy, was locked in a financial crisis redolent of the 1930s. After the tech wreck, everything from state-of-the-art fiber-optic networks to computer chips were dumped on the market, as desperate investors struggled to raise cash at almost any price. The main reason that it has become so easy for the advanced economies to source back-office support...
...FINISH ROGER ANGELL Angell was born in 1920, and in what has to be one of the most entertaining and gracious prose styles of his gracious generation, he initiates us into the long-lost delights of being a moviegoer in the 1930s ("We were the lucky ones, we first citizens of film"), a baseball fan in the age of Ruth and DiMaggio, a motorist when cars had wooden-spoked wheels, a drinker during the ascendancy of the martini and a New Yorker editor of sufficiently long standing to have worked with William Shawn, James Thurber, Ogden Nash and Donald Barthelme...
...fact, the idea for his thesis was born in J.D. Connor’s “VES 172h: Histories of Cinema 2: Sound, Space & Image to 1960” class, which he took sophomore year. Semesters of interpretation later, he decided to focus on the musical sequences of 1930s musical director Busby Berkeley as they have come to be viewed since being shown in a montage at a 1960s revival theater. Connor, who worked closely with Polonsky throughout, pinpoints the draw of working on a Film Studies thesis. “In other humanities, you get weighed down...