Word: bamboos
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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PANDAS Eat up to 50 lbs. of bamboo a day as well as raw carrot and apple treats...
...better to reach for that cosmopolitan without having to struggle out of your chair's deep embrace. When the thumping beats of the house DJ start eliciting signs of a headache tomorrow, just step out the sliding door to the hotel's pool area where covered verandas offer padded bamboo benches and the cool caress of Bangalore's breezes. And thank the city planners for having the foresight to close the pubs early...
...play a key love scene. As they lie silently side by side, lost in the folds of meticulously rumpled bedsheets, the status of their relationship is vague. Technique must do the talking. The camera travels tantalizingly to the bed and slowly brings the two characters into sharper focus. Four bamboo blinds, spaced at 1-m intervals, must be consecutively raised as the camera zooms in. The four crew members who are perched on the rafters controlling the blinds like marionettes are getting far more attention than the actors. "Action." The blinds are raised. Zhang hates it: "Too fast. Too impatient...
...brothers often watched their father work on his car and make repairs around the house. The boys built their own toys, turning bamboo tubes into pressurized chinaberry shooters and transplanting a lawn-mower motor onto a go-cart. Once, Johnson caused an explosion in his mother's kitchen while mixing, of all things, rocket fuel. He had got the recipe from a library book, using saltpeter and sugar. As it cooked on the stove, the mixture bubbled to the surface, filling the kitchen with so much smoke that young Lonnie couldn't see his hands, and burned a chair...
...movie," Chow Yun Fat recalls. "But his ideas couldn't be worked out. Finally, he'd go to Wo-ping and say, 'Master, I'm wrong. Let's do it your way now.'" But Lee did persuade Yuen of the need for the film's bamboo scene. "He liked the way the swaying limbs of the bamboo mimicked the postures of the actors as they fought," Yuen says. "He was very insistent...