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...follows up with critiques and color corrections throughout production, but he seldom puts paint on canvas these days. His artworks require layer upon layer of acrylics to produce their flawlessly shiny, signature sheen, and he leaves that tedious task to the 40 apprentices he employs in a factory-style commune 20 kilometers outside Tokyo and another 15 disciples in a Brooklyn, New York City, warehouse...
...Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills, Calif., with $5,560 of swank swag, there are plenty of easy answers. Just look at her screen roles, which range from the disturbed (Beetlejuice and Girl, Interrupted) to the homicidal (Heathers and The Crucible). Or consider her loopy childhood in a Northern California commune with parents who smoked a lot of pot and chose Timothy Leary to be her godfather...
...gone with him even if they had offered less. They did really well by me." Doing really well by authors is Byng's strategy for the future. He says, despite persistent rumors that he'll head for London, that his 15-person office - described by Martel as "an anarchist commune" - will remain in Edinburgh. He also aims to publish fewer books. "I want to make the list tighter, to make the quality higher, to publish every book on the list as well as I can." And "well" means something different for Canongate than it does for any other house. Byng...
...Those changes have brought Hu Yunxing's life full circle. Starting in 1972, when she was a 30-year-old peasant living on a commune, Hu spent years hauling sacks of earth to reclaim land as Chairman Mao had ordered. A pumping station worked day and night to lift water from her fields over a dike and into Dongting Lake. But the dike ruptured in 1996 and swept away Hu's earthen house. Her family rebuilt it in brick, which they thought would withstand anything. Then the flood that hit two years later took half of the house away again...
...questioned by some who thought it inappropriate to strike up the band so quickly. After canceling two dates and recruiting bassist Pino Palladino, they opened at the Hollywood Bowl, where video screens played images from Entwistle's life. That turned out to be the best way for fans to commune with him. The Hard Rock Hotel refused to give out the fateful room number...