Milton Nascimento, the singer and songwriter who is one of Brazil's national treasures, played up his jazzy side on Friday night at the Rose Theater, the home of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
To take on the decidedly American presence of Ebay, Taobao Mandarin for "searching for treasure"–plays up its local staff and an all-China focus; its online moderators use screen names from characters in famous Chinese kung fu novels.
Those who aren't treasure hunters playing the game might grasp for something they can relate to.
Inside the treasured reserve, monkeys play with crisps packets.
He was also widely recognised as villainous treasure hunter Ian Howe in National Treasure, and played a villainous scientist in The Island (2005).
You could choose to gallop across miles of desert on a trusty steed, dodge bullets, capture outlaws, catch rattlesnakes, practice sharpshooting, rescue frightened settlers from gruesome fates, search for treasure, play poker in a saloon, watch the sun set, or foil the villainous feds.
Among the many instrumental treasures still played in Korea is the ajaeng, a zither with seven strings and movable bridges that is not plucked but, most unusually, bowed with a rosined stick of wood.
The film, which Chan wrote, directed, and co-produced, uses the popular national grievance as the basis for an action caper: a Chinese treasure hunter, played by Chan, sets out to find the lost heads for purely mercenary reasons, but finds, by the didactic climax, his allegiance to the motherland instead.
Had Cosima Wagner's "secret treasure" been played this softly at its premiere, she might have slept through the first pale threads of sound, the voile-like portamento, the faint blush of vibrato, the gilded fluttering of woodwind and horn triplets, the clean, fresh oboe solo.
On top of that, British national treasure Patrick Stewart plays the leader of a white power gang.
