Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That thriving thatched-cottage industry of Britain -- writing very, very long romance novels -- is carried on these days by a new generation of hard- fingered women with tea cozies, cats and killer word processors. Close in the wake of Sally Beauman's Destiny comes Celia Brayfield's first novel, Pearls. Brayfield's protagonists are the fabulous Bourton sisters: Catherine, the "Mona Lisa of Wall Street," and Monty, the international rock star, who wake up one morning to find priceless pink pearls under their pillows. What do the gifts mean? Can they have anything to do with the sisters' late father...
...paused last week to talk with TIME's Tokyo bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand and correspondent S. Chang. At his party's headquarters, Roh sipped ginseng tea between questions and spoke in a quiet, steady voice. Excerpts...
Eccentrics: he hopes that you always have plenty of them about you, and few, if any, sound thinkers. Sound thinkers appear on television; sycophants award them prizes for sound thinking. Eccentrics have a sound of their own, like the wild Englishman Lord Berners, who invited a horse to tea, or less extravagantly, Bill Russell, who played basketball to meet only his own standards of excellence. Russell told his daughter that he never heard the boos of the crowd because he never heard the cheers -- no easy feat in an age pumped up by windbags and Kirkus Reviews. Your commencement speaker...
Meals range from morning coffee and danish breaks to sit-down dinners and the traditional Eliot House lunch of salmon and strawberries. Thirteen thousand meals are served on Commencement day itself, including the lunch of fan-cut, chicken marinated with a tarragon vinaigrette, fruit and tea sandwiches, Hennessey said...
...have it, the coffers are nearly empty. There is no more maid service, and PTL is to cut off all money as of June. Even so, the house is still redolent of wealth: the shiny black Schaefer & Sons grand piano with a golden candelabrum on top, the Chinese porcelain tea service, the collection of figurines, the bodyguards and bustling assistants. If the Bakkers are running dry, it certainly doesn't show...