Word: diamonde
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Asian Youth Games in 1970. That athleticism propelled him quickly up the show-biz ranks, winning him parts as an actor and, eventually, the chance to direct. He broke out as the director of 1982's Aces Go Places, a martial-arts spy spoof revolving around a diamond heist. Starring Karl Maka, Sam Hui and Sylvia Chang, the film was at the time the highest-grossing Hong Kong movie ever. (At today's ticket prices, Aces would have earned about $13 million, which is nearly double the take of Shaolin Soccer, the reigning Hong Kong box-office champ.) Still, that...
...better value anywhere. With no sales tax and low customs duties, gold traded in Dubai is cheaper than in the countries in which it originates. Prices can be driven down still further by a bit of traditional Middle Eastern haggling. If bargaining isn't your style, the Gold and Diamond Park on Sheikh Zayed Road offers a more restrained?if somewhat sterile?shopping experience...
...better value anywhere. With no sales tax and low customs duties, gold traded in Dubai is cheaper than in the countries in which it originates. Prices can be driven down still further by a bit of traditional Middle Eastern haggling. If bargaining isn't your style, the Gold and Diamond Park on Sheikh Zayed Road offers a more restrained - if somewhat sterile - shopping experience...
...iconography of music for almost as long as I have been in love with music, but most album art is at best throwaway and at worst downright awful. Identi-kit rock bands with identical surly-yet-vulnerable gazes; rappers cramming enough bling into the frame that they drown in diamond-studded Cadillacs; songstresses wearing as little as legally possible. And if the cover is bad, what’s inside the little ego-booklet is usually even worse...
...bottler in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. He was frisked and escorted to a crowded office, where, through the thick haze of cigar smoke, he was faced with a group of five men who lounged on chairs arranged around a large central desk. They wore bright neckties and sported diamond rings on their pinkies. Hotch was offered a seat, a cigar, and a glass of Sambuca. Hotch loathed Sambuca, but he downed it bravely. The guy behind the desk, who had hands the size of catcher's mitts, did the talking. "So, kid, you're into salad dressing with this...