Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tea in the Harem...
...What is Tea in the Harem about? There isn't really a plot. There isn't much witty dialogue. You just watch two boys live. It's beautiful. And it makes you wonder why Americans need lots of flashy color, bitchy one-liners and stereotyped characters to make a movie, when Medhi Charef can make a film this powerful from a series of sensitive pictures and lifelike conversation...
...Tea in the Harem...
British and other merchants visited the Netherlands, admired what they saw and took home not only a taste for brick row houses with double-hung windows but such Dutch discoveries as Chinese tea and Oriental carpets. In Georgian England of the following century, the practical was combined with the beautiful. Lo, the great furniture makers: Sheraton, Chippendale, Hepplewhite. "Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort," says a character in Jane Austen's Emma...
Monsoon rains fall with astonishing force, beginning in the late afternoon, and flooding the streets. In Rangoon, I escaped into the People's Patisserie for tea and was accosted by a gang of exuberant youngsters calling out "Howareyou! Howareyou!" I found Tom at the teashop near our hotel, engaged in polite conversation with several Burmese men. Nightlife is next to nonexistent in Burma, but teatime is really more like Happy Hour, and the teashops fill up with carousing beer drinkers...