Word: wicker
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...periodic buying trips to Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province. Here, inside a cluster of brick warehouses at the end of a dirt lane, hundreds of thousands of discs by foreign artists, both major and minor, are piled in cardboard boxes and wicker baskets stacked several meters high. Li wades through the CD sea like a beachcomber, looking for favored titles. He buys the discs by the hundreds for 12 cents each, then sells them back in Guangzhou for $2 apiece. "This," Li says, glancing up from his treasure hunt, "is my paradise...
...respecting Frenchman, he invented an original concept (original, at least, to Paris). That concept is Be, a new shop that Ducasse opened in the city's posh eighth arrondissement. Be - which presents itself as "the very first bakery-grocery store" - is a corner shop reimagined by a fashion magazine. Wicker baskets behind the counter are piled with 18 different types of handmade bread. The oak shelves lining its plate-glass windows are crammed with groceries no upscale Parisian kitchen can be without, from squid ink to balsamic vinegar. "Our customers know that every product has been personally chosen and tested...
That Reston was genuinely liked, rather than resented, was due in part to another organizational trait: his eye for and generosity to new talent. He helped bring to the Times a stunning array of young journalists: Russell Baker, Tom Wicker, David Halberstam, Max Frankel and Anthony Lewis. His proteges, Stacks says, retained a purer affection for him than did his sons, for whom his work left less time...
Coffee tables were hot sellers between $20 and $40, in styles ranging from quaint wicker to functional polyurethane. Bidding was frantic, jumping in five dollar increments...
...HARD There's a murmur, then a babble and then suddenly a roar, and I'm sitting soggy-shoed in a wicker chair, clutching a pink parasol, almost a foot under water. This is white-water rafting, Xishuangbanna-style. Granted, the rapids on this particular stretch of the Nam Baan river, a chocolatey tributary of the Mekong, don't quite deliver Grand Canyonesque white-knuckle thrills. But when you're sitting in a wobbly chair, sliding around atop 20-odd lengths of bamboo lashed together with twine, any white water is, frankly, too much...