Word: samovar
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...success. The one who comes nearest to doing so is Laura Esterman. The mock innocence of her Desdemona-like refrain, "Me thinks my lord hath anger in his look," is as convincing as her langorous intonation of pseudo-Chekhovian eclectic imagery: "I see a cloud shaped just like a samovar." Her Odets mama ("A dry-goods store you don't sneeze at, papa") carries on the grand tradition of Molly Picon and Gertrude Berg. However, her miming as the maid in Drainpipes owes more to French farce than to Ibsen...
...Straus Trophy--which looks like nothing so much as an old-fashioned samovar--was triumphantly carried to Dunster House yesterday from its former possessor, Kirkland House, by an irregular procession of two motorcycles, a convertible, and a crowd of cheering Funsters. A planned march down Memorial Drive, frustrated by a lack of a parade permit, turned into a "spontaneous walk" along the same route...
Down she plunged into a block of newly laid, quick-drying concrete. Yetta Samovar's last words as the concrete hardened about her were, "Solidarity forever!" -Max Shulman...
...outpouring of the Russian literary samovar is not everybody's cup of tea. For casual readers in particular, and restrained Western taste in general, it can be too dark, too wild and too bitter a brew. Yet it is precisely a Slavic lack of restraint and a brooding sense of evil's presence in the world that give the great Russian novelists their widely remarked dramatic powers, and place them ahead of everyone else in a less remarked achievement: the creation of unforgettably grotesque characters. From Mikhail Saltykov's hypocritical Yudushka ("Little Judas") Golovlev, to Ivan Goncharov...
...Yarrow's prize possessions is a venerable Russian samovar in which he brews tea, right at the table. An intricate candelabra with one candle stands in the corner. "This is my favorite piece--Florentine, about 400 years old. These chairs against the wall are old Italian. This section of the room anyway has a European atmosphere. There is a coffee house in Dubrovnik, which is carved right out of the medieval city wall. Though I couldn't try to duplicate it, it served somewhat as an inspiration for the spirit I wanted. But I don't want to imitate...