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...when the first trolleys grind across the frozen tracks and queues of workers shuffle aboard, carrying packets of bread and sausage, to head for the 23rd of August Heavy-Machinery Building Enterprise or the Snagov Cigarette Works. En route, many workers stop off for a hurried plum brandy, a hot coffee, or a fluffy pastry
...loves Broadway plays, savors his stereophonic collection of Liszt and Chopin piano concertos, relishes Italian food (favorite is shrimp marinara), sips twelve-year-old bourbon when he works at home at night. He dresses in banker-conservative clothing, favors dark suits and dark Homburgs at the office, a plum-colored smoking jacket and black leather slippers at home. When he became HHFA director, Weaver promptly moved into an urban-renewed Washington apartment ("I wanted to put my money where my mouth was"), but within a year put his money into more luxurious accommodations ($300 a month) on fashionable upper Connecticut...
...young man strikes up a conversation. Now, there's nothing to do on the Cape in the winter. I mean, I like it, it's pretty and all that, but not for a single guy, ya know what I mean? It's really dead here now. Signs advertising Beach Plum jelly (a Cape Cod speciality). Outside the town is pitch black, the old. Cape houses warm against the biting wind. As you drive out toward the highway, you see no one, not a soul. The only signs of civilization are the warm yellow lights coming from some of the houses...
Which Myth? However, something more is meant in The Solid Mandala: White intends to pluck a theological plum from the prunes of his style. For 20 years prestigious critics in both Britain and the U.S. have found in White the stuff of literary greatness. Dutifully following the critics' advice, the reader will find hints of great profundities behind the gothic facade. In the first place, the mandala does not simply demonstrate the exclusiveness of one consciousness from another's-even in twin brothers. Mandala does that brilliantly -the same events being seen in succession through the eyes...
...House chamber boasted new, plum-colored wall-to-wall carpeting. In the new House office building, the larger-than-life bronze of Sam Rayburn, originally placed so that it faced away from visitors, was turned around. Prices had risen in the Senate and House restaurant, bringing inflation close to home...