Word: dragone
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...hotel may soon have more guests than it can handle. With international trade restrictions on textiles set to expire Dec. 31, China's clothing factories, among the most modern and efficient in the world, are gearing up to take a dragon's share of the global business. "We are expanding in China quickly and I think the economic reality will prevail over all the political obstacles," says Luen Thai's CEO Henry...
...Hodgson ’05 is wonderfully frenetic as the aptly-named Dopey, who delivers a sparkling and drug-crazed monologue, and Josh C. Phillips ’07’s burnt out heroin-addict Fick is both hilarious and sad. Scottie Thompson’s Ann, a dragon-lady salt-of-the earth working girl, is also excellent: when the second act opens to Ann smoking a cigarette in quiet café, her back to a bear yellow wall, her bearing is that of a woman in a (racey) Hopper painting. More surreally, there is also a chorus...
...addition, it's a new species, which Norell and co-discoverer Xing Xu of Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology named Mei long, from the Chinese for "soundly sleeping dragon." But the specimen, dating to between 128 million and 139 million years ago, is clearly an early troodontid, an evolutionary cousin of tyrannosaurs...
Tsai’s 2003 film, Goodbye Dragon Inn—which opens at the Brattle Theatre on Friday, Oct. 29—returns to Tsai’s recurring delight in using water and the sound of footsteps, as we are led by a crippled maid through the hollow auditorium and the dilapidated back corridors of a theatre on the last night before its closing. As the rain pours outside, the warriors on the screen ambush and jostle, and a quiet, intricate drama unfolds among the audience...
...brutality of the theater’s empty seats is perhaps understood only by those who had seen it in its heyday, like Tsai, and it is to get toward that spirit that he cites oldies music and films like Dragon Inn throughout his film. The original Dragon Inn was a wuxia pian (martial arts movies) 1966 bestseller in Chinese, which opened the door to a new wuxia genre with its simple melodies and lyrical setting in the old inn in contrast to the spectacular clamor of those which came before...