Chinese Blue White

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Paper Hibiscus Cocktail Parasols. Assorted colors. (1 gr./DB) 2" parasol on a 4" stick. Accessories not included.

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• 144~3.5" Paper Umbrellas on 4" Wooden Picks
• Great Accent for your Luau Party

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Stovetop Ceramic 2 quart Tea Kettle

This kettle is attractive and fuctional. It is flameproof and is suitable for gas or electric burners. It has a non-reactive matte glaze in Ebony with an attractive heat resistant natural bamboo handle. So few kettles and be used to serve and heat your water. An essetial part of every kitchen.

Nt. Wt.: 2.4 lbs.

This Chinese-style ceramic teakettle has been fired to 2,700 degrees F, making it tough enough to be put directly on your gas or electric burner. The kettle retains heat extremely well: The water continues to boil for 30 seconds after the kettle's been removed from the burner. In addition, the high-fired ceramic is nonreactive, which means the boiled water won't pick up unwanted flavors from the kettle. Classic style elements include a matte finish and a bamboo heat-resistant handle. --David Drury

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• Safe for use on gas or electric burners
• Heat resistant bamboo handle
• Glazed ceramic
• Light weight
• 2 quart capacity

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If you've been around babies in the last few years, you've seen these newfangled toys that are abstract in color (or just black, white, and red) and make curious, crunching noises. Studies have shown that these types of toys stimulate newborns, expanding the capacity of their little sponge-like minds. That concept comes to the video age in Baby Einstein. This 30-minute tape is called a "video board book" and the creators instruct parents of 1- to 18-month-olds to use it that way: huddle around the TV often pointing out objects and interacting with the child as you would with a book. Bright toys, patterns, blocks, and the like move across the screen accompanied by natural sounds, music, and voices. English, Japanese, Russian, German, and other languages are heard telling nursery rhymes or counting to 20. Now the creators don't expect your baby to recite "Humpty Dumpty" in Spanish by the end of the tape, but, as they state in the introduction, hearing different languages invigorates a baby's mind. These educators went on to combine classical music with their program on Baby Mozart and Baby Bach. --Doug Thomas

UPC:786936179705DESCRIPTION:From the moment babies are born, they use their developing senses to discover the world. In terms of sight, bold patterns in contrasting colors or black and white are initially preferred. As for sounds, Mother s gentle voice, in any language, is music to baby's ears. Language Nursery: Voices From Many Lands acquaints your baby with the sounds of foreign language by presenting delightful, visually stimulating images accompanied by spoken passages, natural sounds and music -- including nursery rhymes sung by mothers in their native languages of English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. It's a rich, multicultural experience you and your baby can share as you watch, listen and play together! END

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• baby einstein
• baby
• childrens dvd review
• Baby Einstein - Language Nursery
• foreign language

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VERDI:NABUCCO - DVD Movie

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HOLLYWOOD RHYTHM 2:BEST OF BIG BANDS - DVD Movie

The musical shorts collected on Hollywood Rhythm: The Best of Big Bands and Swing (Vol. 2) are delightful, but purists may note that these pieces only occasionally intersect with either big band or swing music. "Artie Shaw's Class in Swing," which deconstructs the elements of the big band sound, qualifies on both counts. What really comes shining through on this collection is the sheer weirdness of early-sound short films, caught somewhere between the slapstick of silent comedy and the music video of the future. How else to explain 1932's "The Musical Doctor," a surreal vehicle for Rudy Vallee, in which the 1920s crooner plays a physician prescribing music for health? Some great stars are seen early in their careers, including Bing Crosby doing one of his signature tunes, "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day." Der Bingle, who had not yet relaxed into the casual screen persona that made him one of the biggest movie stars of the mid-century, also dons blackface for an uncomfortable sequence in "Dream House" (1932). Cary Grant gives perhaps the worst performance of his marvelous career in support of Anna Chang (and "Pickard's Chinese Syncopators") in "Singapore Sue" (1931), and Ginger Rogers is fun in "Office Blues" (1932), although she does most of her singing stuck behind a desk. She's a secretary trying to land her shy boss ("I like to urge a man, but he's like a clergyman"). The DVD bonus tracks include less inspired musical one-offs featuring the likes of Tallulah Bankhead and Maurice Chevalier. --Robert Horton

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• BEST OF BIG BANDS & SWING, THE (DVD MOVIE)

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WALT DISNEY'S MASTERPIECE

Along with Fantasia and Fantasia 2000, the anthology set contains a third disc that examines a segment of both movies in detail. Each segment has an introduction that has experts (including Leonard Maltin), producer Roy E. Disney, or the animators setting up the piece's history. Notes on the music and dozens of design photos are included on all the segments, although others offer more intriguing features. Abandoned animation is shown on many segments, as are a few behind-the-scenes shorts; the most intriguing are experts from Walt Disney's hosted documentaries on how his company made movies. As for the photos, they are awkwardly catalogued and only the most patient of viewers would want to look at all of them. In some segments, though, these images are entertainingly produced as a "story reel," presenting these images--rough animation, sketches, pastel paintings--with the musical accompaniment. For those looking for a more well-rounded view of the films, the two one-hour documentaries on each film's disc lay the groundwork, but none of the anthology looks at how the first film was seen through the years or gives time to anyone who wasn't gung-ho about every element of the films. There is hardly a mention of embarrassing stereotypes that were matted (and still are) out of the "Pastoral" segment, or the intriguing aspect of the film as a '60s icon for the ultimate head-trip. Disney does let their guard down to show sequences that were being readied in 1940 for future editions (including a recently restored short scored to "Clair de Lune"). Most tantalizing is a look at how the special effects were done in the original film. The guide is a scrapbook that one of the technicians kept and was discovered only in 1990. Fans can only hope a reproduction will be made available someday. --Doug Thomas

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James Cameron's exciting sci-fi actioner stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as an unstoppable cybernetic killer who's travelled back in time to terminate Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), the woman whose child would someday lead a revolt against the robotic rulers of future Earth. Michael Biehn co-stars as a soldier from the Terminator's time sent to protect Sarah and save mankind. With Paul Winfield, Lance Henriksen, Earl Boen, and the great Dick Miller. 108 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English PCM 5.1 Uncompressed, Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, Korean, Chinese; deleted scenes; featurettes; 24-page book.

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All 23 episodes from season seven--including "Remember Paul?," "Let Me Entertain You," "Assassins," "Searching," and "Come On Over for Dinner"--have been collected in a five-disc set. 16 1/2 hrs. total. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; deleted scenes; featurette; deleted scenes; outtakes; bloopers; gag reel; trivia. **23 episodes on 5 discs. 16 1/2 hrs.**

An air of desperation in the somewhat implausible story lines that have fueled Desperate Housewives since it made such a splash with its premiere in 2004 is never very far from the perfectly groomed homes and messy private lives of the women of Wisteria Lane. But as frantic, lunatic, or downright preposterous as the soap-operatic antics may seem, whether unfolding behind closed doors or right out in the open of suburban Fairview, USA, creator Marc Cherry keeps on giving devotees of Desperate Housewives exactly what they want in season seven. The big news for fans of the show (who are the only ones who will care or understand what any of it means) is that Paul Young is out of prison and back in the lives of the housewives and their husbands; newly separated Bree Van de Kamp has a studly new boyfriend 15 years her junior; and a replacement housewife has moved into the neighborhood, returning the gang's fluctuating membership to its prime value of five. Vanessa Williams plays Renee Perry, a jet-setting college friend of Lynette (Felicity Huffman) whose dream marriage to a pro baseball player has fallen apart, landing her in a place where her cattiness and conniving ways fit right in. Marcia Cross brings Bree's entrée into menopause a dash of flippant fun, especially when she sets her sights on season guest Brian Austin Green as Keith, a handyman who helps her out with some contracting needs then moves in to continue helping with more personal home-based needs. Show stalwarts will remember Paul (Mark Moses) from the beginning seasons as the husband of Mary Alice Young (Brenda Strong, still narrating each episode from beyond the grave) who got away with one murder but was sent away after being framed for another he didn't commit. His reappearance gives the heebie-jeebies to everyone, but mostly to Susan and Mike (Teri Hatcher and James Denton), for whom hard times have meant a move to a sleazy apartment and the inability to keep Paul from maneuvering himself back into their house(s). The dynamic between Susan and Paul changes considerably over the course of the season, and it doesn't help when Paul discovers a naughty secret Susan is keeping to help ease her family's financial burden. Lynette's got a new baby, which puts a new strain on her marriage to Tom (Doug Savant). That situation is not helped after Renee gets whirled into their mix with a secret of her own. The family secrets that Gaby and Carlos (Eva Longoria and Ricardo Chavira) are keeping from each other become sources of even greater dramatic conflict right up to the final episode, centered on a progressive dinner party involving the entire cast. Ultimately it is the women of Wisteria Lane who keep genuine desperation at bay by keeping close tabs on each other's backs. Theirs is a complicated world of devious doings, but allegiances always come home to roost through a bond of friendship that continually ties them together. As is apparent from even this offhanded rundown of key plot points, convoluted and far-fetched remain watchwords for the show's creative team. For the legions of admirers who wouldn't have it any other way, Marc Cherry has confirmed that there will be at least one more season of dramedic machinations, probably two. Ratings have declined over the years, but ABC and the core cast members--Cross, Hatcher, Huffman, and Longoria--still seem happy to keep on giving fans what they want. Special features on the DVD set are pretty thin. Obligatory blooper and deleted-scene segments are included, but there are no commentary tracks and only two short interview-based extras: "Desperate for Trivia," a game show-like collection of Desperate Housewives minutiae, and "Growing Up on Wisteria Lane," which checks in with most of the actors who have passed through the series as children over the years. --Ted Fry

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Once you settle into the realization that this 1986 John Carpenter (Halloween) film is not going to be one of the director's more masterful works, Big Trouble in Little China just becomes a full-tilt comic blast. Kurt Russell is hilarious as a drawling, would-be John Wayne hero who steps into the middle of a supernatural war in the heart of Chinatown. While kung fu warriors and otherworldly spirits battle over the fate of two women (Kim Cattrall and Suzee Pai), Russell's swaggering idiot manages to knock himself out or underestimate the forces he's dealing with. The whole thing is dopey, but it's supposed to be dopey and Russell's game performance brings an ironic edge. Carpenter directs some nifty spook effects (the sudden arrival of three martial arts demigods from out of nowhere is worth applause), and he also wrote the music. --Tom Keogh

Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall. A man struggles to free his buddy's fianc+ªe from the clutches of an evil 2,000-year-old magician living beneath San Francisco's Chinatown. 1986/color/100 min/PG-13.

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Japanese Invention Award winner, and patented design. From Japan, this textured, extra long wash towel is softer and more sanitary than loofah, more effective than a washcloth. Product Size: 28cm x 90cm (approx 11 x 35 inches)

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• Light nylon fabric air dries quickly and completely machine washable, more sanitary than loofah
• Creates a rich lather while stimulating skin and blood circulation, great for cellulite massage
• 35 inches (90cm) towel, much longer than a normal washcloth, so reach neck and back with ease