Word: tablecloths
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...cobblestone quai of the Ile Saint-Louis. "We wanted something original with a superb view," she recalls. "It was a beautiful evening. We watched Nôtre Dame light up and the sun set over the old bridges." Further north, the Canal St.-Martin attracts a bohemian, red-checked tablecloth crowd, while the Pont des Arts footbridge spanning the Seine is a hot spot for more liquid picnics. American Mary Gallagher, a longtime resident, has been throwing champagne-and-crudités gatherings there - "the prettiest vista in Paris" - for years. Technically, picnicking in the city center is forbidden, notes...
Koniaków, in Poland's remote southwestern Beskidy Mountains, has long been celebrated for its superb needlework. Since the 16th century Jagiellon dynasty, the women of this tiny village have been making exquisitely crocheted household linens, shawls and wall hangings. An unfinished silk tablecloth intended for Queen Elizabeth II is on show in the village in a cabin devoted to the legendary needlewoman Maria Gwarek, who died before completing the cobweb-like design (no one else had the skills to finish it). The advent of machine-made lace almost ended the tradition, but then the women of Koniak...
...ring with actors you respect," Depp says. "But when you're in there by yourself, it's quite challenging. You're not reacting, which is mostly what acting is. Instead, you just have to be. There are scenes where it's like two minutes of just scratching the tablecloth. That interests me." He took the movie to scratch a tablecloth? "I'm not really sure why he wanted to do it," says Koepp. "I'm grateful, but it's hard to be certain of what motivates Johnny. It's possible he just wanted to play a character named Mort...
...shirt was showing. Shirts are a nuisance, anyway; when one gets dirty, he just rolls it up in a ball, stuffs it in a closet and buys another. At table, Marlon often drops his head to plate level and shoves it in, and if ketchup splatters on the tablecloth--let it. Once, so the story runs, he was found holding a piece of bread and dreamily buttering his sleeve. --TIME...
...father opened Hunan Restaurant 27 years ago in the Galleria area, which has since become the city's prime shopping district. His was one of the first restaurants to move beyond "American chop suey," Huang says, and became a favorite of Houston's oil barons. A white-tablecloth place dominated by a massive copper mural and carved teakwood partition, Hunan is where Vice President Dick Cheney, then CEO of Halliburton, once was host of a contract-signing ceremony with senior Chinese officials...