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...midst of this teacup tempestuousness one comes to admire Lee Remick. She plays Irving's ambitious, cynical and, it would seem, sexually frustrated teacher. She has given up her life for her music, and it falls to Remick to deliver most of the movie's truly impossible lines -the stuff about art being a more reliable lover than any man can be, for example. Somehow, she manages to throw all that stuff away gracefully and emerge likable. It is a little triumph of professional grace for Remick, who must be one of the busiest-and best-actresses around...
...tempest in a chrysanthemum teacup? Not entirely. Critics of Critic Sheraton object that on occasion she is unnecessarily vitriolic. Says one noted food writer: "She writes laundry lists, not reviews. Mimi is far more concerned with whether a restaurant serves the third or fourth best kidneys in town than whether it is a pleasant place to visit where the reservations are honored, the hot food served hot and the cold food cold, and the people know how to smile." Be that as it may, the brouhaha may be worth more than three stars for Dish of Salt. After a dropoff...
...What are you doing?" The tea has overflowed the cup but still you keep on pouring! Why do you keep trying to put more in when there is no room left in the cup?" The master replied, "Yes, my friend, you are right. Your mind is like this teacup. It is filled to the brim with opinions and prejudices, dogma and theology, logic and arguments. Whatever I pour into it now will overflow. There is no room left for anything to enter. Unless you empty your mind, what can I give...
...anyone cared to comment on the proposals. The Faculty remained silent. The grandfather clock in the corner resolutely ticked off the seconds, and the faces on the wall looked down. Bok asked one last time. There was a nervous cough from the back of the room and a teacup rattled against a saucer on someone's lap. The Faculty had nothing to say. Bok adjourned the meeting...
...anyone who has ever watched a sky filled with snowflakes falling steadily for more than 24 hours, it must be even more awesome to realize that the number of molecules of air in a single "empty" teacup is about 100,000 times greater than the number of snowflakes that fell on Boston that...