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...intelligence and her ultimate helplessness, so that they view her as her son does: with affection and even admiration despite her frustrating fecklessness, her fumbling of life's every chance. From the first scene, when she serves a dinner of warm milk (hers liberally laced from a pocketbook flask) in an apartment without electricity, to the climactic reunion, when she arrives unkempt in a bedraggled housecoat and proceeds to exude glamour and sophistication from every pore, she makes life an adventure. Unlike the mother in The Glass Menagerie, whose tale of having 17 gentlemen callers seems a sad fib, Elise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Glamour in A Housecoat SPOILS OF WAR | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...took a nip off my hip flask and pondered that. "Well, at least he's talking," I said...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Coffee at the U.N. | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...Irish coffee, hold the coffee," explains Willie, gesturing for me to pass my flask...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Coffee at the U.N. | 10/17/1987 | See Source »

...were about to give him the dollar, since he looked like he needed it. But he said "does it look like this one?" as he shifted his pocket flask to his other hand and pulled out a wad of bills. Seeing that he had more cash on him than Steve and I had put together, we decided not to give it to him. He blew...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Money for Nothing | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

...first royal heir to attend a regular nursery school alongside other children, classmates who may one day be subjects of King William V. Charles remembers the lonely hours he spent being tutored at Buck House and did not want the same for his son. Every morning, with a small flask filled with fresh orange juice, Wills trots off to Mrs. Mynors' nursery school, a terraced Victorian house in the multiracial Notting Hill section of London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Prince and His Princess Arrive: Charles and Di | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

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