Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pleaded with MacStiofáin to relent. "If you die tonight," said the priest, "I am convinced there will be serious trouble in the South of Ireland." A moment later, MacStiofáin took a sip of water, then a Communion wafer and finally a cup of hot, sugared tea. If that was a victory for common sense, it was at least a temporary psychological defeat for the I.R.A...
...meditation on the significance of the Japanese writer's grandstand suicide in 1971. In the end, it is not Yukio Mishima's writings that impress Vidal but the romantic act of conditioning his body for death. Ritual suicide is not Vidal's own cup of tea, though he is in poignant sympathy with the Japanese. "Worshiping the flesh's health and beauty," says Vidal, "is as valid an aesthetic-even a religion-as any other, though more tragic than most, for in the normal course half a life must be lived within the ruin of what...
...special vocabulary of serious tasters, wines can be "acid" (tart, sour, with the bite of natural fruit acids), "astringent" (puckery, like a cup of strong tea), or "balanced" (with just the right combination of acid, tannin and alcohol). They can be "big" (with a detectable heaviness on the tongue, not light or watery), "clean" (absent of extraneous tastes like cork or oak), "flinty" (dry and sharp), "full-bodied" (thick, robust), and "maderise" (from Madeira; turned slightly brown with age, past the prime). They can be "petillant" (slightly sparkling or effervescent), "thin" (deficient in alcohol or body, watery), or "woody" (with...
LIKE THE INCOMPLETE MEALS which contain the action, a series of dreams act as additionally interlocking frames for the plot. The dreams are irrational, perverse, anarchic, and profane. A cavalry lieutenant interrupts the three women at their tea (though the restaurant, out of tea and coffee, serves only water), asking, "Did you have an unhappy childhood?" After recounting his own childhood when he poisoned his father, he abruptly excuses himself from the table. The film's fantasies are not only random and incidental like that of the cavalry officer's, but also structure our perceptions of the characters by revealing...
This kind of low key campaigning worked for Hicks two years ago when she was elected to her first term but politics in the 9th changed considerably this year in the wake of the drastic redistricting. The gerrymandering removed some of Hicks's favorite tea spots and substituted more liberal suburban voters who drink mostly cockrails...