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...factory worker, scraped together $3,000; bought wheels, arms, foam padding and plywood chair bodies from local components manufacturers; and hired 20 friends to assemble the parts into finished products. Today his Heaven Office Furniture makes 1,000 kinds of office chairs, from executive models in black leather and chrome to squat cloth-clad cubicle standards. Zhu won his first export contract in 2004. He also attended the Cologne Furniture Fair in Germany and sent 80% of his $3 million output to 20 countries. Through a screen of plastic bamboo along his office window, he points out the new factory...
...rarely used for bettering the community. Instead, there seem to be two impulses competing for those hard-earned dollars: a deep love of one's own family and a desire to show up everyone else's. Everyone buys Mom a house. Everyone buys a truck. Many buy subwoofers and chrome packages for their truck. When the returning workers descend on Tuxpan for the holidays in December, the local Yamaha motorcycle dealer has a field day. Rents in Tuxpan now average around $250 a month; completed houses can cost well over $100,000. Nike shoes cost up to $200 a pair...
HUSTLE AMC, SATURDAYS, 10 P.M. E.T. This unapologetically slight con drama is a chrome-plated time machine back to the mid-'60s. In the spirit of Catch Me If You Can, it signals its retro intentions with midcentury-modern production design, a jazz sound track and the casting of Robert Vaughn (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) as an aging grifter ("You're never too old to cheat, my dear"). Adrian Lester (Primary Colors) is ice cool as Mickey, a Zen master of con who treats his work more as philosophy than fraud. It's all delightfully phony, but will win your...
It’s got a sleek new paint job, chrome trim, and a flaming grille. But rather than powering up a car, this sweet machine revs up Harvard’s students. This fall, the Eliot Grille, a student-run snack bar in Eliot House, is getting a neat new facelift. Proposed changes would transform its previous, drab decor into something that resembles a ’50s diner. Nondescript walls will now be washed in bright red and blue. And the House is buying ’50s-style furniture to complement the new paint job. This furniture...
...dovetailing seamlessly with the song’s guitar theme.Such resonance is appropriate enough, as Wilco thrills instrumentally as well as vocally. Nels Cline and Tweedy redefine synchronized guitar acrobatics in the short but beautifully orchestrated electric guitar solo on “Hell is Chrome.”Cline’s extended solo on “Ashes of American Flags” replaces the noise outro of the studio version, completely altering the character of the song. Instead of leaving the listener disoriented, Cline restores melodic order and orchestrates an instrumental climax before slowly fading...