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...elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for "eight" rhymes with the word meaning "get rich") to rounding the high rollers' area with beehive curves to encourage its inhabitants to "leave their honey." The staff is more polite than the Chinese have come to expect. "If you don't tip them, they'll still remain friendly," says Gigi Chan of Hong Kong, who notes that some of Macau's less refined dealers "will yell at you or even take your chips away...
...convenience: we live under the same roof, but black folk sleep on the couch night after night, for four years at a time. Yet tonight, and until Election Day, the bedroom door is open. For better or for worse, till death do us part, we're married. But, honey, it doesn't mean we're happy about it. LAWRENCE R. CRUMPTON Sydney
...elements were in harmony, from replacing the slot machines' winning trio of 7's with lucky Chinese 8's (in Chinese, the word for eight rhymes with the word meaning get rich) to rounding the high rollers' area with beehive curves to encourage its inhabitants to "leave their honey." The staff is more polite than the Chinese expect. "If you don't tip them, they'll still remain friendly," says Gigi Chan of Hong Kong, who notes that some of Macau's less refined dealers "will yell at you or even take your chips away." Asia isn't the only...
...original Cutie Honey comic, which debuted in 1973, was an X-rated, gory riot of impossibly proportioned heroines and female villains doing battle in varying stages of undress. Cutie Honey herself was a voluptuous android barely in control of her own powers, whose girlish personality contrasted with her zeal for bloody combat. A subsequent animated TV series toned the action down to a Saturday-morning-cartoon level and introduced Cutie Honey to a much larger audience...
...Exactly why remakes of classic cartoons are booming is open to debate. Some cite nostalgia, others a lack of imagination. "People have special feelings for the older anim?. They're simpler and more innocent," says Cutie Honey star Sato, a longtime fan of the heroine she plays. Her director, Anno, takes a crankier view. "Japanese people can't grow up," he says. "When they're not reading comics and watching cartoons, they go to see movies about cartoon characters. It's sad." Whatever the reason, there's no denying the needs of a nation of comic-book nerds?and with...