Word: print
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night. It is not unusual to wait up to an hour for a table at either place on weekends. The Gypsy serves beer and wine with its menu, while the Habibi serves no alcohol. Still, the latter's hazy, dimly lit lounge, with people sprawled lazily on animal-print couches, puffing away, evokes the decadent look of an opium den. "I have a lot of people come in and say, 'Are you smoking weed? What is that?'" chuckles Mickey Fathi, who co-owns the Habibi with his father Saad. "They kind of look at it like it's a bong...
...jester inside the armor of a star's machismo. So to wrap up the temple take, he has a quiet word with Morgenstern and steps back to leave the actress alone--staring dolefully into the camera with a bright-red clown nose he has stuck on her face. Cut. Print. Amen...
...their contracts. "There's no way for authors to keep track of their sales records," she says. "Even worse, Chinese publishers sometimes publish your work without telling you." It has never been easy for authors to make money in China. A regular Chinese book costs only $2, and a print run of 20,000 is considered good for a novel written by a well-known author. With an 8% royalty, an author can expect to make only about $3,200-a pittance in comparison with what can be made in the American market, where Da Chen received...
...Author Wang Shuo has mixed feelings about the Chinese publishers he has worked with. "They're all profit-seeking. They use me and I use them. Most of the time, they care only about making big money. They have a huge first print run of my book. Afterwards, they don't bother printing 10,000 copies per year because it's small money. That's why you can hardly buy my previous books...
...have to specialize," says a middle-aged shopkeeper dealing mainly in techno. A national subculture has sprouted, dubbed the Saw-Gash Generation. Dakou has its own fan and e-commerce websites, message boards and magazines-which review albums only available on the mainland as saw gash and even print helpful Chinese translations of lyrics and liner notes. The home page of China's largest record company, Jingwen, features a 19-city dakou-shopping guide...