Word: taipan
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...costed fountain there - to supposedly funnel the chi out of the air and into the interiors, where its course is further channeled by canals of furniture. The Hong Kong Tourism Board even promotes feng shui tours to visitors, and everywhere you turn, there's always some crackpot heiress, anxious taipan or socialite architect wanting to talk about dragon energy and phoenix fire. But I want to grab them all by the shoulders, shake them hard and tell them to get their noses out of the I Ching and to forget about those flying-star combinations. We've been fooling...
...time, the discreetly located bar - Peshawar's only one - was still open. Some fixtures endured the city's slide in security over recent years as militants have increasingly menaced this bustling northwest city of three million. Spies skulked in the lobby, assiduously rereading newspapers. And there was still "Taipan", the Chinese-ish restaurant looking out at the pool. Half-eaten plates, half-emptied glasses, and cigarettes left to slowly burn themselves out conjure panicked scenes of flight...
...plus ultra of such depictions is Noble House, the 1988 TV miniseries that is a dumbed-down adaptation of the James Clavell novel of the same name. As a casting choice, Pierce Brosnan could not have been improved upon, playing the taipan, or chairman, of Struan & Co., which is modeled on the real-life conglomerate Jardine Matheson. Deborah Raffin - white of stocking and padded of shoulder - is the love interest and Ben Masters plays a silver-haired corporate raider. A pouting, 21-year-old Tia Carrere gives a splendid performance as a mistress by the name of Venus Poon...
...decade. Eisenberg is the real-life version of the international power brokers who appear in the pages of popular thrillers, and he is usually described with some of the same adjectives: shadowy, reclusive, discreet. Worth an estimated $1.3 billion, he is a legendary figure in Asia, a modern taipan. His holdings include all or part of hundreds of companies in 30 countries, and though he has half a dozen lavish homes in several countries, he says with some justification that he lives in his private Boeing 727, which is outfitted with a bedroom and sophisticated communications gear. Calling Eisenberg...
...DIED. PETER SUTCH, 56, former chairman of Hong Kong's Swire Group, one of the territory's older trading houses, of cancer; in Rome. Sutch eschewed the stuffy, colonial taipan mold in favor of a more modern and pragmatic management style...