Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure, catalogue vendors lost no money on such stocking stuffers as a $45 sterling silver Perrier bottle opener with two silver bottle caps or a $140 one-inch-high sterling tea set. A $200 King Tut bust was bought by some 7,400 holders of American Express cards. Yves Saint Laurent's Opium perfume, at $100 an ounce, sold like, well, opium. Beverly Hills' David Orgell disposed of all 18 of his catalogue-advertised $750 sterling-silver telephones...
...stiff and nearly invisible black wire, made Kermit's right hand strum the banjo strings. Another Muppeteer onshore worked a radio control that allowed Kermit's left hand to do the chord changes. Now and then, between takes, someone would row over and pass a cup of iced tea down to Henson through the rubber sleeve...
...supper in her kitchen to discuss affairs of state amid aromatic fumes of the chicken soup she loved to cook. She met Prime Ministers and Presidents at the grandest of diplomatic dinners wearing her severely cut suits and orthopedic shoes. She tolerated bodyguards with reluctance but would often brew tea for them in the morning's small hours on some of her sleepless nights...
...with lotions and creams and spread on a rainbow of lipsticks and eye shadows. To prepare for her first interview with the president of Revlon, she visited a midtown Manhattan skin-care salon and underwent a one-hour facial that included a massage, a seaweed mask and a herbal-tea steaming. She topped off the treatment with a professional makeup job. "A session like that one can change your whole feeling about the world," says Raffety...
...Furor over Japanese Trade" [Nov. 13]: Japan will regret it if we have a Boston-type Tea Party, and consumers boycott items made in Japan. We, too, can acquire the mentality that if it isn't made in the U.S., we can make it here. The conditioned reflex can work both ways...