(How do you say "worm droppings" in Chinese?) "All in This Tea" dips effortlessly into a half-dozen modes -- travelogue, biography, nature ode, business story, nerd profile -- sustaining a flexibility of tone that allows for both keen insights into the rapidly evolving Chinese economy and drunken raptures on the ability, in one especially prized blend, "to taste the mountain".
It was Karin Jack who explained that Lehman wives were expected to give birth on their own, move house on their own -- and in one especially grim scenario leave a very sick child's bedside in order to get on a helicopter to visit a new mcMansion purchased by... Joe Gregory.
Additionally, verbal and physical attacks against foreigners in subways are increasing, and in one especially gross reported case, Nazis publicly urinated on the kids of a refugee family.
In one especially alarming case, security experts last fall found a program planted on personal computers to intervene whenever the user logged on to an electronic payment site called E-Gold, based on the Caribbean island of Nevis.
No one else in their right mind would want to go in one, especially after an England match.
In one especially emotional meeting with Power, when he talked about the torture of civilians, both of them wept.
In one especially deadly operation, the US killed 26 civilians in airstrikes in Sangin district in Helmand.
In one especially damaging consequence of the crackdown, China has tightened visa procedures for foreign visitors of all sorts.
In one especially effective scene, the protagonist opens his suitcase to find a ghostly image of his wife and daughter eating dinner.
In one especially amusing picture, Zissou floats in an aquatic vessel of his own invention -- an inflated tire tube with waders attached.
In one especially self-referential drawing at Ameringer Yohe, Castle gives us a picture of what appears to be a drawing in progress.
