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...uninitiated, the traditional Chinese cheongsam is a tightly fitted garment, with side slits that go as high as the wearer dares?from modest notches above the knee to attention-grabbing openings as high as the upper thigh. Precision tailoring is vital, and that's why Cao's clients flock to him from as far afield as Hong Kong and Taiwan. "I have made thousands of cheongsam," he says. "How could I remember how many?" Still, he has kept up with the trends. "Women used to be more modest," shrugs Cao. "Now they want everything tighter, shorter and more colorful." Prices...
...shoreline. No dialogue, no story, but, for the attentive viewer, much visual wit. One shot featured ducks waddling from left to right on the beach for a few minutes; then, suddenly, two ducks seem to change their minds and head back the other way; the rest of the flock, and many more, follow suit. A sweet parable of conformity. But if Kiarostami's movies get any more austere, they'll be wallpaper...
...their early reaction as Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release the film, paced nearby and chortled, "They say I've lost my edge? Have I lost my edge?" He had not. He spent the rest of the week negotiating with a flock of U.S. distributors hoping to profit from the film's marketable notoriety...
Surowiecki's thesis posits an uncanny and generally unconscious collective intelligence working not by top-down diktat but rather in dynamic arrangements of what the economist Friedrich Hayek called "spontaneous order." Surowiecki cites the giant flock of starlings evading a predatory hawk. From the outside, the cloud of birds seems to move in obedience to one mind. In fact, Surowiecki writes, each starling is acting on its own, following four simple rules: "1) stay as close to the middle as possible; 2) stay 2 to 3 body lengths away from your neighbor; 3) do not bump into any other starling...
...screening, on a Monday at 8 a.m., got blanket news coverage; a dozen or so radio and TV crews circled the U.S. critics to get their early reaction. Meanwhile, Miramax Films co-chairman Harvey Weinstein, whose Disney bosses had forbidden him to release the film, was dealmaking with a flock of U.S. distributors hoping to profit from the film's marketable notoriety. Fahrenheit 9/11 more than lived up to its advance rep. The film details, in Moore's usual mix of flippant comedy and moral outrage, the case for the prosecution in the Bush Administration's invasion and occupation...