Word: tailoring
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...tailor's apprentice named Zhang (Chang Chen) is called to the apartment of a notorious courtesan, Miss Hua (Gong Li, again). As he waits for his audience the sounds of lovemaking trouble and arouse him. Miss Hua, when she greets him, notices his excitement, orders him to remove his trousers and caresses him with her expert hand. It could be said that Hua is merely extending Zhang a professional courtesy. But she is also humiliating the young man?and, she must know, earning a new devotee with a sexual gesture that means little to her, everything...
Compare the two, but be careful. The name just wasn’t made for this kind of stuff. It wasn’t designed for the literary allusions that sportswriters dream of, wasn’t tailor-made for the delightfully violent allusions to hell and Infernos. The words, instead, read plain. Simple. Conspicuously, they lack that loud, Italian vivacity—that zest which leaps off the tongue with a vigor so perfectly becoming of a punishing linebacker...
...CONSIDER THE SHOW THERAPY OR ENTERTAINMENT? I consider it to be education. We give people usable information that they can tailor to their personal situations. It's very different from therapy and much more than entertainment...
...least that's true for many Americans, whose fat-and calorie-packed diets and largely exercise-free lives are a prescription for heart disease and plenty of other ills. For Okinawans, by contrast, the traditional way of life seems tailor-made for living forever--one day at a time...
Here's how the idea works: customers sign up for an assembly session with a preset menu. They come in and make their way around assembly stations, measuring prepared ingredients and putting them into plastic bags or disposable cooking pans. Everything is prechopped. Customers can tailor the dishes to their families' needs...