Word: shui
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...help establish a beachhead, they have carefully blended all the Vegas pomp at the Sands Macao into an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the 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...
...Sheldon Adelson is so gung ho about Macau that he is enlisting partners in a $10 billion project to duplicate the Vegas Strip on a sliver of reclaimed land between two of the territory's islands. The Sands Macao carefully blends Vegas pomp with an Asian vibe. A feng shui master helped design every detail of the casino to ensure that the 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...
...only inauthentic moment came after the music stopped: whereas a Western conductor would have turned around on the podium to bask in the rapturous ovation of a sold-out house, Lan Shui, the orchestra's Shanghainese music director, immediately hopped down from his perch and threw his arms around the nearest soloists, pushing them forward in a comradely display of humility...
...Whatever the reason for Asia's increasing mastery of Western music, the musicians themselves are shedding their modest reserve. His behavior on the conducting podium may be self-effacing, but Lan Shui talks about the Singapore Symphony Orchestra in bold, even hubristic terms. On the morning after his performance of the "Symphony of a Thousand" at the Esplanade, he asserts, "I think it's possible for us to play Mahler better than the Vienna Philharmonic. When we toured Japan with Mahler's Ninth Symphony, there were one or two performances that were as good as Vienna's?or not worse...
...Respect for Taiwan "To The Brink and Back" [May 31], about Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's inaugural address, was informative and insightful, but it consistently referred to Taiwan as an "island" rather than a country. Although there may continue to be bickering about Taiwan's international status, there is no reason to always refer to it as a mere island. Taiwan is a country, an island-state and a full-fledged nation. Dan Bloom Chiayi City, Taiwan...