Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Frederick Raphael, who co-authored the script, throught up the film's most striking flourish. Its scene is not the expected lavish suite, but a steam-bath replete with floating tea-trays and chess-games. It's a crude American vulgarization, inspired no doubt by the array of gadgetry available to backyard swimming pool aficianados, but it works wonderfully to spark dialogue-dulled attentions back onto the screen. There are little self-parodies of the film's seriousness like this throughout, and while they work to keep your attention they only attest to a certain amount of disinterestedness...
...whether utilitarian or purely aesthetic in purpose, support Anni Albers's statement that, "The good designer is the anonymous designer ...the one who does not stand in the way of his material." The screenprints, lithographs, textile samples, paintings--even Josef Albers's photographs and his silver holders for ice tea glasses--show an overriding concern with the impersonal qualities of formal design...
...tender beef broiled in front of you on an open stove. The third section, with standard restaurants and chairs, serves the traditional Western favorites--sukiyaki, teriyaki and tempura. All full meals are accompanied by a delicious Japanese soup called miso, sunemono, a crab meat salad, and all the green tea you can drink. Of the liquors, the sake and plum wine are particularly worth trying...
...Miami franchise started to buckle, he negotiated a move to Philadelphia in less than an hour. In Canada he managed to stop a revolt among owners angered by his frequently abrasive negotiating style. "Gary has a great creative imagination," says an associate, "but tact is not his cup of tea." Davidson disagrees. "The Canadian owners told me I was acting like Hitler. All I said was that if they didn't like it, they could leave the league." The owners gave in, and the W.H.A. was on the ice just two years after Davidson had begun work...
...minutes-of the newspaper filler "on this day 200 years ago" variety -will be narrated, says the network, by "everyone from movie stars to Supreme Court Justices." Sample Minutes: Actor Barry Sullivan recounting the career of Tom Paine, Charlton Heston describing George Washington's reaction to the Boston Tea Party, Richard Crenna explaining the impact of the fuel crisis in Boston in the year 1774, and Jean Stapleton revealing Martha Washington's secret recipe to prevent cherries from spoiling...