Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest hustle in history, the triumph of prime time tennis. From the day of Margaret Court's debacle, the ladies of the suburbs had a cause. And what a cause. The daily ladies doubles was now field for liberation, the weekend tennis its proving ground. And the talk over tea after tennis was noisy with sexual banter, and later, the cocktail chatter grew hotter as the sexual sparring got heavier. The housewife was to be vindicated, her woman's honor restored: Margaret had put meaning into tennis...
...please don't, tell this to the Lady of the Suburbs. You'll put a damper, for a short while, on all her fun. Because it's going to mean a lot for her, a lot more busy time, a lot more killing time over tea and tennis and telephone talk. Not that King's money-making will bowl her over -- she's probably got her own bank account. But the sexual victory should clinch a cheer straight from her heart. "It's the principle of the thing" -- listen to her next evening over martinis with her husband -- "that counts...
...come to Karuizawa with the expectation of spending money," he says, "so why shouldn't I help them in this endeavor?" Even those who do not sample the $38 cup of coffee-served at a special table by a kimono-clad waitress in a ritual that resembles a tea ceremony-can leave the Akaneya with the feeling of having been overcharged...
...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, teryaki 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...
...experts - an Egyp tian Egyptologist," and roamed the deserts of Peru with Palacio the grave robber. To avert unpleasant dietary sur prises, Hawkins stuck to an "expedition diet: beer, bread and stews boiled and bubbled to sterility." Surprises some times defied even this regime, however. In Cuzco, a tea prescribed for altitude sickness turned out to be brewed from cocaine...