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...conjure, Xu Jinglei announces she's tired of Oriental mystique, all the brocade and bamboo and aerial kung-fu artistry. That's ironic, given that the movie director, 31, with her chopstick physique and brushstroke features, would fit quite nicely into an epic about a woman named, say, Plum Blossom...
...Shared Confucian values are most obvious in the many paintings of the "four noble plants": plum blossoms, which flower before the snows melt, symbolize the hope of spring; chrysanthemums, the hardiness to survive in autumn; orchids, refinement and modesty; and bamboo, loyalty, because it bends but never breaks. This steadfastness is celebrated in an exquisite silk hanging scroll, Bamboo Blowing in the Wind by Yi Chong (1541-1626), a royal prince who is considered the greatest Korean painter of bamboo. You can almost feel the breeze as the dark leaves float away from their own ethereal shadows, an effect...
Shoppers themselves are rewarded for being thorough in their reporting. Pokodner has nitpicked his way to the top of his undercover hobby. His latest reward? A plum assignment that requires him to treat his wife to a $150-a-plate gourmet restaurant. "I very rarely use my own money to buy anything anymore," he confides. "Paying for yourself is just so 1990s...
...wrongful, I would say) discrimination against gays, it apparently does not see any problem hosting the many law firms that specify that they are recruiting minority first-year students onlystrongly inferring that non-minority first-years should wait until next year to have a shot at a plum summer...
...discrimination against gays, it apparently does not see any problem hosting the many law firms that specify that they are recruiting minority first-year students only—strongly inferring that non-minority first-years should wait until next year to have a shot at a plum summer...