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...Shanghai's Fudan University. Besides the requisite stops at schools, suburban communes and the Great Wall, Reagan and Wife Nancy will take a one-day side trip to Xian, an archaeological wonder featuring the 2,000-year-old tomb of China's first Emperor. In addition to the sumptuous banquet at the Great Hall, the Reagans will be treated to a more intimate dinner with top Chinese leaders at the Diaoyutai guesthouse, a onetime imperial fishing resort more than 800 years old where the presidential couple will be staying. The Reagans will reside in a renovated villa, complete with indoor...
Geisha is full of anecdotes about the social life of the geisha, but interestingly enough, Dalby concentrates on the interpersonal geisha relationships rather than supplying the reader with what is most fascinating--how a banquet is run and what it is in particular about geisha that make them so exotic. The occasions when she describes the course of a banquet are some of the most amusing in the book. It is not surprising that Dalby conveys a greater interest in the internal world of the geisha--how the women relate to one another. And what she finds in the Kyoto...
Basketball Banquet...
...almost hear this eager whisper down the corridors of Orion Pictures: "The Hotel New Hampshire could be the Tom Jones of the American '80s." Same director (Tony Richardson), same teeming fresco of endearing eccentrics, same Rabelaisian appetite for sex as the main course in the banquet of life, same giddy mixture of the farcical and the funereal, same pilfering of every silent-comedy trick from fast-motion camerabatics to actors who step out of character to wink knowingly at the audience...
...returns came in Tuesday night, the Hart crowd laughed and wept while a rockabilly band played in a Manchester restaurant. Months earlier, when victory seemed unlikely, the campaign had rented a banquet room that could be partitioned in case the crowd was small. But 500 people, a fifth of them journalists, jammed it beyond capacity. Hart staffers chatted over the din on newly acquired walkie-talkies, the first sign that the campaign had moved upscale. "I guess we're for real now, huh?" said a staffer, clutching his walkie-talkie...