Word: teas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hobo is filmed in carefully composed color, and although often selfconsciously sentimental it gives a candid look at contemporary Japan while commenting on two of its prime problems: the increase in materialism and selfishness as prosperity makes its mark, and the fear of another nuclear war. Little of the tea-ceremony tranquillity of picture-book Japan comes before the camera's eye, but one scene evokes the flavor of tradition. Junpei makes a pilgrimage to a Buddhist shrine where a procession of monks, carrying enormous torches, winds below a pounding waterfall. Kneeling, he makes his confession: "O Lord Avatar...
...lives there alone and, with 19 servants at his call, does nothing for himself; he will not even buy his own clothes. While his hotels like to proclaim their appeal to gourmets, Hilton is indifferent to fancy food, preferring to dine on corned beef hash, tuna-fish casserole and tea served in plastic cups ("It's more sanitary."). Though his hotels pride themselves on the original works of art they hang in lobbies and guest rooms (the New York Hilton has 8,500 specially commissioned works), one of the least appreciative viewers is Conrad Hilton. "He wouldn...
...Valera's shadow, the new Taoiseach (pronounced tea-shook) has labored single-mindedly for decades to break the vicious circle of declining living standards and dwindling population that threatened Ireland's very survival as a nation...
...headquarters, the only tinge of Red is its massive maroon safe. Clerks work in a Dickensian atmosphere of mahogany panels, marble floors and gilded grillwork. Only the top six officers and one secretary are Russian; the other 133 employees are Britons-and everybody pauses for 4 o'clock tea. Says Doubonossov with a bankerish smile: "We observe the customs and conventions of the City of London." One closely observed custom is Narodny's refusal to divulge the names of its many British clients...
S.R.O. is an unfamiliar condition in London's West End, where theatergoing is a relaxed and casual matter, seats are cozy, there's tea at the interval, and no fuss or pushing. Last week at Wyndham's Theater, however, conditions were rougher. The Wyndham contained a crowd rather than an audience. Standees were pressed against all walls. They had come to see Oh What a Lovely War, a play described by the Times as "a savage humanitarian document, with all its teeth gleamingly intact...