Word: tearooms
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...Fourth floor ... children's wear ... handbags ... maternity ... pianos ... Ginsberg in the tearoom." What's this? Howling Allen Ginsberg, aging (52) poet-priest of'50s beat and '60s yippiedom reading his work in a Brooklyn department store? "Why not?" replies Ginsberg, as he prepares to recite such poems as Dope Fiend Blues, Punk Rock and Plutonian Ode. His familiar curl-fringed bald pate and face set off by silver granny glasses, he explains: "I get a lot more older people now, especially little old Jewish ladies. But I like a varied audience-little old ladies, homosexuals, weirdos...
...time at all the parliamentary party, whether it be Labor or Conservative, would have got rid of its leader. They would have said "Enough is enough, we can't go on with this," and it would have been done just by people talking to each other in the tearoom or drinking a rather stronger drink in the Members' smoke room or the bars...
...attempts, mentally, to remove a single item. Suddenly its underside is marked MADE IN JAPAN. The scholar becomes a prisoner of his obsession, forced to preserve the dream by repeating it every night. But reality is inexorable. Restaurants and boutiques spring up around collection and collector: the Florence Nightingale Tearoom, the Oscar Wilde Way Out. Spectators come to gawk at the thinker, not the thought; finally even the erotic kinks are removed by relentless commercial vulgarity...
...hear" sound than "listen" to it. Walter (Switched-On Bach) Carlos here presents four tone poems-spring, summer, fall, winter-that give a good approximation of what a year's hike might be like on the Appalachian Trail. Possible uses: mellifluous Muzak for a flower shop or Japanese tearoom, or dozy balm for the pastoral-minded insomniac trapped in the big city...
...front bench in Commons during the 3:30 a.m. announcement of the Labor government's economic moves. Later, in the members' lounge, Brown complained to Tories and Laborites alike: "I'm never consulted about anything." Then he gathered about 50 Labor M.P.s in the Commons' tearoom. "I'm one of you now," he said. "We are going to plunge this party back to the grass roots and see a reflowering of our party...