Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faults aside, the A.R.T. should be proud of this production and proud also that their season of six shows includes three by living American playwrights. Sweet Table at the Richelieu is a surreal tea-time, a peculiar mediation on memory and decay that owes as much to Milan Kundera as it does to Chekhov. It is not quite the "penetrating tale of nobility and charlatanism... guaranteed to keep you engrossed, hypnotised--and dazzled by rich language and seductive images" that the A.R.T. brochure touts. It is, however, a generally intelligent skillful, and well-written piece of theater, and that...
...talk with Andrei Sakharov, a meeting that, as % he noted, only two months before could not have taken place. He and his wife were gracious hosts -- he braving the cold and the gaggle of waiting reporters and photographers to greet us outside their apartment building, she serving us tea and homemade cake during our two-hour visit...
...show of solidarity with his youngest students, Neustadt fired off personal invitations to the 15 frosh enrolled in Government 1560, "The American Presidency." Arriving at his Cambridge apartment around tea-time, the guests "talked a lot about the course and about Neustadt's life," says Rubin. "It was very informal, very nice...
...with a new year under way and the trials of 1988 looming, Bush sat in his White House office, legs stretched out in front of him, sipping a cup of Chinese tea. At 62, the Vice President is remarkably fit. His ruddy face is unlined, his hair only slightly gray. Dark blue eyes focused intently through his rimless aviator glasses. Bush was unruffled as he listened to questions / about his political nerve. "I know inside," he said, quietly tapping his chest, "I've got a lot of fiber here." He conceded he had been somewhat excessive in wooing conservatives...
Fantastic parties are a Khashoggi signature. Christmas was a simple tea compared with his 50th-birthday fete in 1985, at which he entertained more than 400 guests at a three-day extravaganza. His birthday cake, a model of Louis XIV's coronation crown, was created by a chef who was flown to the Louvre to study the original. Khashoggi's parties also take place in his 30,000-sq.-ft. quarters incorporating the 46th and 47th floors of the Olympic Towers in Manhattan. Created out of 16 separate apartments, the abode has a pool that overlooks the spires...