Word: tinning
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...rent." In the end, Wong and his star opted for the commercial, and it was Zhang Ziyi who ended up atop the tiled rooftops, on horseback in China's western desert and at the Oscar ceremony in March. Sitting in his office in Hong Kong's Tin Hau district, Wong now says: "I have no regrets." After a pause, he adds: "Ang Lee should have been most disappointed. You watch Zhang Ziyi in the film, and she's following Ang's directions to the letter. Shu Qi would have added a different layer. Her personality would have made far more...
...Juarez: hourly pay is still about $1.25. Many workers have to travel hours each way by bus from colonias like Anapra, subdivisions that have sprung up without paved roads, water or sewer service. The homes look like preschool art projects, glued and stapled together from cardboard and plywood and tin. Bootleg power lines drop from overhead wires, loop down to the ground and are held in place by a rock, then snake through the sand to a house. Some wires are live, and arc and spit when it rains. The young women who live here are favored by the maquila...
...post-war transformation of Harvard affected the College in many small ways. Food was now served mess-style in round, tin trays. In the fall of 1947, the College observed meatless Tuesdays and egg- and poultry-less Thursdays in response to President Harry Truman's nation-wide call to conserve food for European...
...skeptical about the accepted wisdom in the medical community that HIV causes AIDS - for failing to provide treatment to the country's AIDS population. Mbeki, who had addressed the conference before the boy, walked out during Nkosi's address, drawing fierce criticism from South Africans increasingly alarmed at his tin...
...trois cloches" by Jean Villard) or the Paul Anka "All of a Sudden My Heart Sings" (by Jean-Marie Blanvillain and Laurent Henri Herpin) or "Mack the Knife" (which had five versions in the Top 20 from 1956 to 1959, including Bobby Darin's #1) had come to Tin Pan Alley through Ellis Island. This was music they heard, liked and bought. I also doubt that the decade's record producers were trying to broaden the masses' musical palette; they probably figured that, since catchy tunes were hard to find, they might try searching abroad for exploitable material. And since...