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...thing for a brand to strive for, but not if you are a "no brand" brand. The goal of Yasui's team is to define Muji by design: to create and refine products toward ultimate simplicity and functionality. Muji is characterized by neutral tones and a bare-bones chic infused into everything from food to beds to bicycles--even a house. Muji ("no mark" in Japanese) screams minimalism to anyone who has entered one of its 433 locations in 16 countries...
...opens slowly, revealing a bare-footed woman whose loose orange dress glows in the dim entryway. After Hartigan launches into his introduction, she tells him that she is, in fact, a tenant...
...writing start?JK: People who knew me when I was a child said I have always written. I remember always reading. I just loved books. It got me in a lot of trouble. I would steal them, because once I read a book, I couldn’t bare to part with it. So I would steal books from the library.5. FM: What kind of books?JK: Oh, usual children’s books: Cherry Ames, Nancy Drew. I had a Bible, which I read all the time and a dictionary my mother gave me for my seventh birthday...
...flew by helicopter from Helmand to the enormous NATO base outside Kandahar to learn that three Canadian soldiers had been killed that morning in an ambush. I stood in a small, bare concrete plaza as the Canadian flag was raised, then lowered to half-staff. Next the Danish flag and finally the NATO flag were raised and left to rest at half-staff. A small group of soldiers from assorted countries stood at attention and saluted as the flags rose and fell. There were no American flags this day, but there soon will...
...leaders to turn the planet’s trash surplus into personal profit. You might think that these elements would develop into some sort of political commentary, but you’d be wrong. The acting may be nugatory and the storyline skeletal, but the film does provide a bare framework for car chases and fights. The action sequences are wittily choreographed, if hokey at times. There are quite a few good explosions, which might have been more gripping if we were a little more attached to the characters. While not a good film, “Transporter...