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...Inhabiting the movies-only aesthetic of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez (to whose Grindhouse double feature Wright contributed a funny mock-horror trailer), Wright and Pegg have topped Shaun of the Dead by trans(atlantic)planting a whole gaggle of genres: the English-village comedy, the Wicker Man strain of rural horror, any number of Brit police TV series and its main reference point, the Hollywood action film. But the thing to cherish - and I hope I won't scare you away with this - is how bloody English it is. By which I mean, bloody funny...
MARION: Memorably embodied by Karen Allen, Marion (Raiders of the Lost Ark) was a two-fisted drinker, a bare-knuckle fighter (unless confined to a wicker basket) and a perfect romantic foil for the rakish Dr. Jones. She was Rosalind Russell to his Cary Grant, Bette Davis to his Errol Flynn--in short, a helluva dame...
...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...
...WICKER You can't get more organic than interlaced osiers, twigs and rods. Italian furniture company Gervasoni has an entire collection, designed by Paola Navone, dedicated to woven materials. The CROCO line, for example, includes a daybed in handwoven crocodile rattan with a wooden frame and solid teak feet. Other pieces include armchairs and sofas made of black pulut and seats crafted from malacca canes?a type of liana originating in the jungles of Borneo and Sumatra...
...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...