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...opened to critical acclaim and big box office. They returned to that milieu in 1995 with the ambitious Dead Presidents, about a black Vietnam soldier returning to a life of crime in the hood. With American Pimp, a controversial 1999 documentary, they took a straight-on view of the gold-medallion and Cadillac...
...leave, I suspect that all Americans and other foreigners here are making their decisions according to their local realities. Last night, in a conversation with my electrician, who is a Muslim from Sumbawa, I heard a story about an American community on that island. There is a U.S.-managed gold mine on Sumbawa that employs several hundred Americans who live there with their families and who supervise a workforce made up of thousands of local people. As soon as this crisis started, the electrician told me, the locals saw the looming threat to their jobs, and decided to protect...
...fantasize about massive pristine convenience. Brilliant gold taps, virginal white marble, a seat carved from ebony, a cistern full of Channel No. 5 and a flunky handing me pieces of raw silk toilet roll. But under the circumstances I’ll settle for anywhere...
...toilet is accentuated by its hand-crafted wooden seat, a throne designed according to the highest standards of excellence and comfort. It is defined by a leveraged flushing box, floating majestically above the seat and operated by a lavish gold side-chain. The bowl itself is adorned with intricate etchings, carved by a skilled New England craftsman. As one rests upon the seat, attending to those bodily neccessities that occupy a small part of everyone’s day, one is pleasantly surprised to reach for the iron cast toilet paper holder, aside which sits a feature we all have...
...million worth of gold and silver--probably "safe and intact"--belonging to the Bank of Nova Scotia buried under the wreckage of 4 World Trade Center, according to an estimate from the Toronto-based bank...