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...write Mao's expressions over and over," says 43-year-old Zeng Fanzhi, whose portrait of a masked man with a cauterized visage sold for $1.63 million in London last month. "Then, suddenly we were told, 'That's finished, you will love money now.'" Puffing on a Cuban cigar at a five-star hotel's café in Shanghai, Zeng gazes at the other patrons. Next to him, a man in red silk pajamas leans over to slurp coffee from a dainty cup resting on the table. Nearby, a prostitute in a leopard-print minidress has arranged herself...
...occasion when he was tutoring Kim Il Sung’s nephew—“one boisterous youngster, not the most obedient type.” He said Kim Il Sung, who was trying to reform the national educational system, sat in the back corner smoking a cigar because he wanted to “observe the teaching scene.” “I’d be sweating,” Kim said. After working as a tutor, Kim became one of the leading figures in Korean national education scene. He then went to Russia...
...their glorious capes and dresses. Contrast these wooden images with the imaginative fashion shots of Steichen's later years, like White, a classy composition of three women and a horse. One of the exhibition's surprises is a silent publicity film, Edward Steichen, America's Foremost Photographer, showing the cigar-smoking, three-piece-suited artiste surrounded by assistants and equipment, coaxing a beautiful model to pose, and then selecting the best images to print...
...After sundown, all the worldly pleasures that Macau is famous for are there for the taking (and Hong Kong but an hour away by jetfoil), but if gleaming casinos and cigar bars are not your thing try heading out to Coloane Island - the only part of Macau that hasn't been turned into a Chinese facsimile of the Vegas strip. Call well ahead for a balcony table at the tiny Restaurante Espaco Lisboa, tel: (853) 882 226, and enjoy Portuguese home cooking while the sounds of cicadas, and the day's races, ring in your ears...
...perhaps a measure of consumer responsibility ought to make its way over to the liberal-minded drug users of our country. And perhaps we should insert into our caricature of the pot smoker the fat cigar of the plutocrat...