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...Jiang's Red Scarf Girl, also a memoir written in English, won a number of children's book awards in America, including a gold Parents' Choice Award in 1998. Jung Chang's Wild Swans has sold nearly eight million copies since it was first published in Britain in 1991. Lulu Wang's debut Dutch-language novel, The Lily Theater, became a publishing sensation in Holland...
They don't have the brand power of Martha Stewart, but Mitchell Gold, Bob Williams and their dog Lulu are changing the way you decorate your living room. Gold and Williams are the Mitchell Gold Co. of Taylorsville, N.C., which they founded together in 1989 and which has grown into a business that sold close to $70 million worth of furniture last year. That may sound paltry next to the hundreds of millions pulled in by such A-list retailers as Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel and Restoration Hardware (armchair giant La-Z-Boy did $2.6 billion in sales last year...
...formula paid off immediately. In the company's first year, Gold says, it turned a profit on $1.5 million in sales, and the ink has been black ever since. Gold and Williams celebrated by acquiring an En-glish bulldog they named Lulu, who has become the company's advertising mascot. In 1998 Gold sold out to the Rowe Cos., owners of Rowe Furniture, which makes upholstered and leather furniture, and two retail chains, Home Elements and Storehouse. The deal afforded Gold financial security, and the ongoing relationship is strictly hands...
...being unloaded into a flat, and I said, 'That's my Kathleen sofa! That's my Pottery Barn chair! This is really too much!'" Never one to miss an opportunity, Gold walked right in and introduced himself to the owner. "The first thing she asked me was 'Where's Lulu...
Curiously, the rest of the album is sapped of the energy that made the opening such a pleasure to listen to. “Baby Lulu,” a lounge-act number, slows down the album into a malaise that it never recovers from. Moreover, the flourishes, especially the horns, that peppered the opening reappear constantly throughout the album to the point of tedium. Shifts and breaks become less spontaneous and more calculated. At the halfway point the album starts to sound like thick syrup. The tempo starts to pick up in the last quarter...