Word: golden
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Every morning at 4:55, Egyoku Nakao, 48, head priest at the Los Angeles Zen Center, dons the golden brown robes of her station and presides over 33 students engaged in Zazen, Zen's painstaking sitting meditation. Her authority, like that of hundreds of senseis before her, is absolute; a student would no more contradict her than question the break of day. A few hours later, however, the Japanese-Portuguese American slips into civilian clothes and rearranges the meditation cushions for an innovation called a Practice Circle, where the talk is free and her view is not privileged. "The center...
...remake of"--Death Takes a Holiday), to talk about his new release, Seven Years in Tibet. Just down the lawn from a Newport-style mansion, we are sitting in the estate's opulent boathouse, itself a minimansion slung over a bay so ludicrously sun-dappled it could double for Golden Pond...
...pathways of diplomacy must be trod with care. It's customary when visiting the Golden Temple, the Sikh's holiest shrine in the Punjab, to remove one's shoes. However, Queen Elizabeth, who will visit the Indian temple later this month, is not a barefoot kind of gal. So a compromise has been reached. The Queen will wear white socks...
...beautiful fall day, when I recall what was grand and exalted and now is gone forever--the Burlington Zephyr and the North Coast Limited, the New Yorker of my youth, Memorial Stadium where we spent Saturday afternoons cheering for the Golden Gophers, the Earle Brown farm that was turned into a mall and a subdivision--I think of the SILVER BUTTER KNIFE STEAK FOR TWO, looming above me on a billboard, our car stopped at a red light on Lyndale Avenue in 1952, the Bible on my lap open to Ecclesiastes, my head anointed with Wildroot hair...
...recent Monday afternoon, senior citizens and middle-aged Central Square employees thronged the Golden Donut to get a cup of iced coffee "with five [spoonfuls of] sugar and no cream" or "two glazed donuts...