Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since I had a few minutes to wait, I helped myself to the complimentary herbal tea and browsed the room, picking up the crystals, and thumbing through books such as "Angelo Rizzo Speaks on Using Mind Power--A Program for Karmic Beliefs" and "The Starseed Transmissions--An Extraterrestrial Report...
...emigre actress renowned in Warsaw for roles in the classics. In New York City she shuffles around a decaying and almost bare tenement flat, hanging up tea bags to dry for reuse while intoning Lady Macbeth's hand- washing scene in an odd singsong with a thick Polish accent. No one will hire her, and even she can hear herself and understand...
...private self and his father (Jamie McInnes) work secretly together to provide continue slapstick comedy. During afternoon tea, Gar predicts every word the elder O'Donnell speaks. When the old man describes his problems with travelling (his bowels cease to function), the unseen alter ego screams "bound by the ass, tethered by the toilet" to the delight of the audience...
...Masai. Yet certain details of their lives, like the flies that sometimes cake their lips and eyelids, can be disgusting. The Masai dwell in the world's most magnificent spaces. Yet to stoop at midday to enter one of their dung-walled huts to share a cup of tea is to be plunged immediately into an impenetrable, claustrophobic gloom, choked with smoke. A laser beam of sunlight fires through the darkness from a window the size of a Kenya five-shilling piece. It takes three minutes for the eyes to adjust and make out the dim outlines...
Joseph talked, when asked, about the Masai diet. Milk, tea. Some maize. Goat or beef on special occasions. Do the Masai ever eat the wild animals? Joseph answered, "Sometimes we eat the gazelle, because the gazelle is close...