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...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...
...influential American poets of the past half-century and the 1999 winner of the Bollingen Prize, poetry's top honor; of pneumonia; in Odessa, Texas. Rejecting the strict metric schemes of the academics, Creeley captured emotions with a spare, conversational style that assumed an intimacy with readers. In A Wicker Basket, he wrote, "There are very huge stars, man, in the sky/ and from somewhere very far off someone hands me a slice of apple...
...balcony had wicker chairs in it. [You would] get a ticket to sit in the wickers which were more comfortable than those below,” William King says...