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...Asia is his most extravagant entrepreneurial venture. Capitalizing on Javanese resources and skills, the company offers some 28,000 products ranging from bamboo boxes to picture frames made from hand-rolled newsprint to furniture molded from tawny water hyacinth. "The world is looking for interesting materials presented in a sophisticated, minimalist style," he says. Evidently so: Out of Asia goods are carried in ?lite stores and mass-market chains in Europe and the U.S., among them Macy's and Harrods. Although precise revenue figures from the private firm are unavailable, he's currently expanding with a new venture called Warwick...
...truckloads of men from the Union Solidarity and Development Association, a military-backed civilian group, turned up wearing white armbands and blocked the motorcade front and back while other thugs spilled out of the woods lining the road. They were armed like gang members on a rampage, brandishing sharpened bamboo staves, clubs, metal cudgels, bricks and stones...
Before Nick can enter his room, however, he slips off his sneakers. His single is designed to resemble a traditional Japanese room—tatami mats carpet the floor, a bamboo roll-up shade covers his bookshelf, a tea set sits in the corner. He has no bed and no standard-issue desk, chair or bureau. Instead, his laptop rests on a small wooden table low to the ground, and he takes a futon mattress out of his closet each night...
...grimacing movie stalwart; of heart failure; in Los Angeles. Over a 60-year career, he is best remembered as Eliot Ness in TV's The Untouchables. But the L.A. native was equally impressive in 1950s epics by Budd Boetticher (The Bullfighter and the Lady), Samuel Fuller (House of Bamboo) and William Wellman (The High and the Mighty). Beneath his rugged looks and rough voice, Stack often suggested a psychic danger, an imminent imploding that got him an Oscar nomination for Written on the Wind and gave his Ness the undertone of obsessiveness: a G-man Javert. As host of Unsolved...
...aesthetic looks like a cross between a 70s dance floor and Star Wars, with neon blue lights illuminating stainless steel structures and bamboo floors...