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From Wal-Mart's point of view, it's the Chinese who have turned out to be the best capitalists. At the store in Shenzhen, local managers hold Ping-Pong tourneys, stage fashion shows and have clerks hawk products like paper towels in front of a large display. And that's just on Tuesday. The store even has its own fight song ("My heart is filled with pride...I long to tell you how deep my love for Wal-Mart...
...Mart?" asks Charlyn Jarrells Porter, the company's head of personnel. There are no such labor issues in China. It turns out that the Chinese make the best capitalists, and the most fervent believers in the Wal-Mart culture. At the store in Shenzhen, local managers hold Ping-Pong tourneys, stage fashion shows and have clerks hawk products like paper towels in front of a large display. And that's just on Tuesday. The store even has its own fight song, Marching Into a New Era. ("My heart is filled with pride ... I long to tell you how deep...
...film's later duels might lack the buoyant grandeur of Yuen Wo-ping's action scenes in Crouching Tiger, but they have a stateliness that suits the gravity of the plot. These are working warriors with a deadly goal. Several of them are also artists and calligraphers. They believe that every stroke of the pen or the blade must be justified. They don't fight to dazzle; they fight to kill...
...modern musical, Hong Kong Nocturne from 1967, is a giddy delight?no mean feat, considering that each of the film's three singing, dancing heroines (Cheng Pei-pei, Lily Ho and Chin Ping) loses the man she loves. Under the Japanese director Inoue Umetsugu, the girls soldier on gorgeously, through a dozen songs that portray the territory as a Paris with sweet sauce: "Hong Kong is a lovers' paradise," these Chinese chanteuses warble, "Love, like mist, covers blemishes...
Tina: Hang gliding, synchronized swimming, ping-pong. I think he enjoys foreign films, it just seems he has fine taste—he must like very good food, something exotic...