The wild wall mural at Usagi (58, rue de Saintonge; 33-1-48-87-28-85; www.usagi.fr), with its mix of Japanese manga-inspired figures and French Baroque motifs, is an apt metaphor for the cooking.
Johnson's installations — wild wall-hangings studded with shelves — employ objects that he has used in the construction of his own identity.
Investigation has revealed this bankruptcy, and the collapse of similar firms, was the product of wild Wall Street speculation (the housing bubble, sub-prime mortgages, and mortgage-backed securities) and lax oversight by the Federal Reserve and US Treasury Department.
The widely mocked project involved five miles (8km) of the unrestored Xiaohekou section of the wall, which has become known as the "most beautiful, wild Great Wall".
Wild ones, Wall Street style.
Forbes calls it "gurus gone wild"; the Wall Street Journal, "confusion".
A surge of interest in "wild Great Wall" tourism, where hikes follow crumbling sections, also poses a threat to decaying stretches in remote regions, according to reports.
HIGH-SPEED METAPHOR Bart Chilton, below, a Democratic member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, fears that cheetahs are running wild on Wall Street.
While Britain boasts three kinds of native lizard (although, confusingly, one of these is called a worm), some non-native varieties of lizards have accidentally been introduced to the wild, including wall and green lizards.
Even though he has walked headlong into one of the greatest economic disasters in history, faced the headwinds of the Party of No creating historic gridlock, and felt the political giving ground give way as the corporatocracy has pulled out the stops to keep their offshore tax loopholes and prevent regulation of Wild West Wall Street, he is doing, all in all, pretty well.
