Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Almost every evening, smiling embassy staffers in black Mao suits whisk small groups of dinner guests up to the green-carpeted Juliana penthouse. Before ushering them into an eight-course dinner, Huang might offer them Double Happiness cigarettes from a circular gold tin and a tall, lidded cup of green jasmine tea. As a host, Huang has become known for his determination to keep conversation light and innocuous and for his eagerness to reach out to all sorts of people. But above all, he has become known for his chef, who specializes in the hot, spicy cuisine of Szechwan province...
...past, emerges this fall as a weekly feature. It capitalizes on first-rank actors who are between movies. Last week's premiere featured Anne Jackson and Eli Wallach in Murray Schisgal's The Typists, a talky tragicomedy about two white-collar mediocrities spilling out the empty cup of their lives. The high night of the season should come next month with Jack MacGowran's readings from Beckett; instead of remounting the show on the stark set designed for its off-Broadway run last year, PBS is spectacularly but improbably staging the work in the Mojave Desert...
...BUREAUCRACY The Wages of Truth The lot of the truthteller has never been easy, as the ancient Greeks proved by silencing Socrates with a cup of hemlock. Today's methods for muffling disquieting voices of candor are subtler, but no less effective. Take the example of Administration officials and civil servants who fail to fall into step with White House efforts to put a rosy glow on statistics...
Last year, capitalizing on his newfound speed, he won $97,251. This season, however, he is Pfc. Smith and, in return for the Army's allowing him to play in selected tournaments, he must donate his winnings to the U.S. Davis Cup Fund. Last week, Smith had no regrets about donating his $15,000 purse to the fund. Scheduled to be discharged in December 1972, he knows there is a lot more money where that came from...
...agreed to invoke the special powers of preventive detention-i.e., imprisonment without trial-for suspected subversives. Heath attempted to divert suspicion of impending emergency action by going back to his yachting immediately. A few days later he led Britain to victory in the internationally contested Admiral's Cup races...