Word: silk
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...there's Restaurant Bobby Chinn (www.bobbychinn.com). The star of Hanoi's growing foodie set, owner-chef Bobby Chinn offers first-class food at developing-world prices, with entrees like aromatic green tea-smoked duck and braised pigeon wrapped in rice paper. The eclectic and lavish setting - including a red-silk hookah lounge with suspended white roses - reflects Chinn's Egyptian-Chinese-Kiwi roots. The origin of the popular codeine-tablet cocktail is less clear...
Opposite page: Marni silk, rhinestone and peacock feather pochette ($1,146, marni.com...
...Terence, a fastidious Princeton grad, likes the environment, it will probably be because it is very different from the one his father--and new boss--inherited. Founded a century ago to hawk Canton-made goods such as porcelain, silk and fireworks to the U.S., Li & Fung is the leader among middleman companies, fashioning the world into a smooth-running assembly line in which buttons produced in Sri Lanka and velvet milled in Italy are sewn into a vest at a Shenzhen factory and shipped on time to a store near you. Leading an army of 7,162 workers in nearly...
...Heaven’s Gate Bros and Branch Davidian Hos: Get reimbursed for Kool-aid, purple squares of silk, and arsenic...
...Museum is most of all, and rightly, an art book. The specimens are arranged on the black or white pages like jewels on velvet or silk, the feathers and insect wings, corals and shells as brilliant as when they were first pinned into cork-lined drawers or stowed in boxes and jars. Stacey, who shot with film and scanned the images into a computer, says she limited her digital intervention to boosting contrast or deep-etching outlines. "I'm trying to give the sense that it is there in front of you. It's not the actual object...