Word: tearooms
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...what it's like to be a working mother, "racing around the kitchen in a pair of bedroom slippers, trying to quick-thaw a chop under each armpit . . ." Shared responsibilities? "Transporting children is my husband's 26th favorite thing; it comes somewhere between eating lunch in a tearoom and dropping a bowling ball on his foot." Listen, let me tell...
...comes Hally (Lonny Price), the teen-age son of the owners of the tearoom. He is instantly at ease, having spent more warm and happy hours since boyhood with the servants than with his parents. Sam and Hally teasingly argue about whether dancing is an art or merely entertainment. Hally scoffs that the dancers fumble around and bump into one another. No, says Sam, seraphically. "It is like being in a dream about a world without collisions...and it's beautiful because that's what we want life to be like...
...aircraft, spotter planes, radar trucks, tanks, artillery, antiaircraft batteries, radio rigs, armored personnel carriers, lines of trucks, gasoline tankers, innumerable smaller vehicles. Huge transports, some in Aeroflot's blue and white paint, others in military silver, come and go. The view from the departure lounge and the airport tearoom is like Red Square in Moscow on the anniversary of the October Revolution. About the only weapon missing from this panoply of Soviet military might is an ICBM...
Hanover Street stars two highly attractive actors, Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down, as well as the genteel Christopher Plummer in the role of the heroine's betrayed husband. The movie has three types of scenes: briefing scenes, bombing scenes and tearoom scenes. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish among them because every set in the film, indoors and out, is flooded with mist. The sound track is inundated with John Barry's crashing score, next to which Michel Legrand's florid music for Summer of '42 sounds like Hindemith. Yet the plot does somehow manage...
According to Knight, his hosts ultimately were unable to confine their hostility to the printed page. While visiting the city of Tashkent, 1,800 miles southeast of Moscow, Knight and his wife Jean went to a tearoom to help celebrate their Intourist guide's 29th birthday. Robin Knight was given a drink that, he says, made him feel "very ill and out of control." He staggered outside and passed out. Meantime, Knight later said, one of the four Soviet men present told Jean that her husband had "sold" her to them, and another began to paw her. She broke...