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An interesting statistic: how big is your stimulus package by comparison with this indicator? Not quite out of the woods yet, are we?
Gong Linna sings traditional Chinese songs in excellent arrangements. She also sings classical Chinese poetry set to music and some tasteful pop songs. A Chinese tea ceremony? In the world's most famous Peking Duck restaurant? Is is a jet plane? A rocket? No, just the mag-lev train to Shanghai 
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Harold Pinter is sorely missed. Here is his Nobel Prize lecture:
Fountains in Paris? It's the Jardin Marco Polo, with some music to set the scene One way to see the Tuileries Gardens is to take the Ferris wheel that is set up in the Place de la Concorde each year Wonderful Alison Krauss sings Molly Ban with the inimitable Chieftains--watch out for Paddy Moloney's solos on the Uilleann Pipes Duelling banjos from Delivrance: bluegrass classic in context The brilliant and inventive Earl Scruggs and family, including banjo player...Steve Martin? |