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...mountaineer accent and laconic sadism; the other Basterds are mere war-film window dressing. This conflict is fought mainly between nasty Nazis and resourceful women. In her slinky dresses and fancy footwear (sometimes just one shoe), Kruger is steely glamour incarnate. And Waltz has the purring efficiency of a sleek German vehicle, not a tank but a Mercedes-Benz; he could take Cannes' Best Actor prize on Sunday night. The movie is pretty scrupulously played in the languages its characters would speak - except for one odd moment early on, when Landa tells the French farmer, "I ask your permission...
...golden. The company specializes in rice cookers that fetch as much as $1,000. Its high-end devices, which look more like computers than pots, have enticed the class of techie epicures who like $10,000 stoves and fridges. With a series of innovations - from induction-heating advances to sleek, vacuum-sealed containers designed to serve rice at its most succulent, Zojirushi has cooked up a following that yields $600 million in annual sales...
...Disrupted Lives the sleek third-floor lounge of the Ista, a boutique hotel in downtown Bangalore, is a good place to try to understand how young Indians are changing politics. Many of the young employees of this hotel are upset, in a visceral way, about the recent incidents in Bangalore, which occurred a few weeks after a more vicious, videotaped beating of a group of young women at a pub in Mangalore, a much smaller city 220 miles (350 km) away. "It gets you really angry," says Deepak Sampath, 30, the hotel's front-office manager. "It's not something...
Plus, these clunky reggaeton-rockin' menaces don't fit the sleek, cosmopolitan image of today's Panama City, which now has First World aspirations. After several years of unparalleled economic growth and construction, it wants a modern transportation system to fit its sophisticated and worldly ambitions. But getting rid of the second-hand busses has become one of the trickiest parts of Panama City's extreme makeover - and now a central issue in the May 3 presidential elections. "All modern cities have a metro system," said presidential frontrunner Ricardo Martinelli, during a recent speech to the city's top business...
...While the grey slate tables and metal barstools work well with the overall minimalist aesthetic, comfortable is not the adjective that immediately comes to mind—the banquettes against one wall are so rigid they’d cure scoliosis. With a younger, self-consciously cool crowd and sleek, provocative décor, this bar-restaurant hybrid gestures strongly towards urban chic. “I don’t feel like I’m in the middle of Harvard Square,” described one diner, dreaming of life in the real world...