Word: tablecloth
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...knocked down the saltshaker with a sharp crack of the pepper shaker, like a chess master toppling the king. The visitor went down. White grains of salt spilled out of the holes in the top of his head, and he expired on the flat white linen. The expanse of tablecloth had become for an instant dangerous, in a surreal way. The American had been run down by a pepper shaker from the Pleistocene in a restaurant named for the paramount white colonial of British East Africa, Lord Delamere...
...five hostages sat at a long table covered with a white tablecloth and plates of cake and bottles of water. Some of the hostages seemed ill at ease in the company of their captors, who stood behind them in camouflage fatigues, some armed with automatic weapons. Conwell and others dodged questions that they regarded as sensitive, particularly those concerning the group of hostages who were being kept separately...
...pace for most of the first act. Take Eddie's classmate Felix, for example, who confesses to having had 2,617 impure thoughts in one week as a second grader. Or the crotchety Sister Lee, who cautions her girls against sitting at a table with a white tablecloth because "it reminds the boys of bed." Such uproarious exchanges between students and teachers find a delicate balance in the meditative, less bawdy musical numbers. The group rendition of "How Far is too Far" treats the issue of sex with just the right blend of comedy and thought, and Thacker's solo...
...bottom for falling down." Olga's upbringing was almost a case study of how some parents tend to reenact with their own offspring what they suffered as children. Svetlana's mother, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, whom Stalin married in 1919, had been a harsh disciplinarian. When Svetlana damaged a tablecloth with scissors, her mother hit her repeatedly on the hands. Nadezhda committed suicide when Svetlana was six, leaving her daughter's discipline to Stalin...
...that everybody was not just cuckoo about me." She was caricatured as the high-handed queen of a new Gilded Age, making a fuss over fops and froufrous just as a painful national recession was setting in. Muffie Brandon, her social secretary, was joking when she spoke of a "tablecloth crisis" at the White House, but the new concern for elegance was real. The First Lady had some of the Reagans' rich friends, among others, pony up $800,000 to redecorate the private rooms at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, then got $209,000 worth of china donated, and let opulent Architectural...