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...about 1980, Li noticed the popularity of imported tape recorders. With government investment, he helped form what he says was China's first cassette-tape company. As incomes rose, telephones caught on, and Li's company became China's biggest phonemaker. Black-and-white TVs came next, in 1981; color in 1992. Today TCL is China's second biggest producer of mobile phones, and Li wants to become No. 1 in air conditioners. But competition remains fierce among Chinese electronics firms. To stay ahead, Li last year paid $560 million for control of the TV arm of the French consumer...
...have room for the supplies that keep you party pretty. Cosmetics companies are coming to the rescue with packaging that supplies a single serving of makeup. Cargo's DailyGloss comes in individual-use bubbles, and with a mini-roll of blush paper that holds a sweep of color in each disposable sheet, Flirt! Rollerblush helps you do away with the need to carry a brush. Just tear and apply...
...with which he is able to play this field. He is a past master at creating extraordinarily rich and complex objects, thick concatenations of meaning. Prina has carefully planned out even the smallest details of both his works themselves and the way they are displayed, from the texture or color of his materials to the way the objects are attached to the floor or wall, and all of these details contribute to the layering of meaning in the end product. Unfortunately, I don’t have space here to for me to provide an extended discussion of specific examples...
...convexity of a shield, that juts forward close to three inches from the center of the board. The board itself is a vertically-oriented rectangle (roughtly three feet by four feet) of plain unfinished wood with a slightly raised strip frame around the edges and a light, blond-colored grain. Ironically enough, Dorian Gray shares a gallery with the Fogg’s prize Jackson Pollock painting, No. 2, dating from 1950. Ironically, because Kline’s work seems in some ways a grotesque caricature of Pollock’s explosively gestrual drips. A recent thrust of Pollock scholarship...
...saving grace of this movie is its cinematography, which is nearly impeccable. The characteristic use of strong color and natural imagery that distinguished Yimou in this summer’s Hero returns in full force with Flying Daggers, bestowing the film with a mythic ethos that mostly excuses its often pedantic moralizing...