Word: wicker
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...hoping that it would make me look cool, that the publicists would think I really cared about them and their event, which was important because they were women with things to give up. Besides, I figured the gift bags were full of Tootsie Rolls, fake tattoos and those evil wicker tubes that would cost me weeks of work by getting my index fingers stuck together...
...Jimmy Carter in the White House in 1979?memorable quote: "Has your Congress passed a law that I cannot smoke?"?the bamboo curtain had just been prized open: full diplomatic relations between the two countries were only four weeks old, and the first imports from China?lots of wicker baskets?were just hitting American stores. Today, the U.S. and China trade more than $200 billion in goods a year: American families watch televisions produced in China from Chinese-made sofa sets, and major U.S. corporations consider China one of their most important markets. Each country has thousands of bureaucrats whose...
...reforms can best be glimpsed in Sichuan's cities, especially in Chongqing and in Chengdu, the province's capital. Under a huge white statue of Mao, disparagingly called the "Old Man" by many Chinese, downtown Chengdu is alive with hundreds of peddlers hawking fruit, vegetables, meat, fabrics, pots, wicker furniture, even Brooke Shields calendars. The bargaining would shame an Arab bazaar. "What do you mean selling them at this price?" a woman asks a man hawking tangerines. "They're full of defects." The vendor yells back, "Defects? What do you mean defects? You can't get tangerines at a better...
...sinking of the Andrea Doria. He had served in Vienna and Moscow before going to Washington to cover the State Department, the White House and the CIA. So when the position of Washington bureau chief opened up, Frankel coveted the post. When he lost out to Tom Wicker, Frankel resigned. "But, Max, think of the platform," implored James Reston, the Times's Washington columnist. "Can you really give up the platform?" Frankel withdrew his resignation. This child of the Times could not bring himself to leave his family...
...enough of them around. Whether you like him or not, you have to be grateful he's there." Like him or not, LaBute isn't done exploring the dark side. He's now scouting out locations for his next project, a remake of the 1973 cult horror film The Wicker Man: "This time it's going to be less about religion and paganism and more about - surprise! - men and women." And he's still writing plays as feverishly as he did in college. There are no plans to slow down or go soft. "That's what you're asking...