Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington in November. Pickets will show up in front of Internal Revenue Service offices across the nation. Explains Co-Coordinator David Hawk: "We're trying to get people to think and talk about the war in economic terms, to relate high defense spending to high taxes." "Boston tea parties" will be staged at Manhattan's Battery Park and along St. Louis' Mississippi riverfront. Fasts, rallies, parades and other demonstrations are planned for more than 30 U.S. cities, from Boston to Los Angeles, from Madison, Wis., to Dallas...
...inner room before a pine fire and an icon. Alyosha, his legs locked behind his head and his arms out gently rocking him back and forth, grinned up softly at his visitors. His Deidre was tending to the tea. Beside her the young Alpha Beta brother sat with his head clasped between this knees, trying to contain abounding...
Blood All Over. In the countryside, Marxist agitators stirred discontent among landless peasants. In Calcutta, they won big pay increases for 1,000,000 tea, jute, textile and engineering workers. To make sure that no one interfered with the Marxists' tough tactics, Party Boss Jyoti Basu saw to it that Bengali police were deeply infiltrated by the party faithful. The political shenanigans soon led to a breakdown of law and order throughout the state...
Pulling the Wool. Not if much of the public can help it. "The midi is all right in its place, like in a dungeon," muttered Los Angeles Film Maker Michael Huemmer. "It makes women look like tea cosies," said a Chicago housewife. "Instant age," sniffed a Boston fashion writer. "If God wanted women to go around all covered up that way," says Atlanta TV Reporter Tom Loughney, "they'd be born like that." Still, such protests rarely reach farther than across a bar or a park bench. What the midi mania clearly calls for is mass resistance...
Despite their hunger for the new, the Japanese still show a marked in terest in their heritage. Housewives flock to schools to learn origami (paper folding), flower arrangement and the ancient tea ceremony just as unmarried girls fill charm and beauty schools. More flags are out on holidays, and the man's formal kimono is making a modest comeback. Novelist Yukio Mishima (Forbidden Colors) has formed his own private army of 100 men to help restore discipline, patriotism and pride in young Japanese. But many artists are exceptions to the growing preoccupation with Japanese identity. They consider their work...