Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every VIP visiting Tokyo last week was wrangling over the yen and fretting over international terrorism. Anna Maria Craxi, the stylish and ebullient wife of Italy's Prime Minister, was asked through the usual very proper channels what she would like to see during her visit. Kabuki, perhaps? Tea ceremony? A Buddhist temple? Craxi had another idea: an Issey Miyake fashion show. So, snug within the security perimeter of her hotel, Craxi got a close look at some of the world's most beautiful clothes at a presentation narrated by the designer himself...
...final clubs last year, one elite Harvard institution stood quietly by, unaffected by the campus hoopla. Everyday around noon its male and female members, like their male cousins in adjoining stately homes, took out their keys and entered the hidden side entrance--into the world of china and teeny tea cups, oriental carpeted libraries, faithful servants and ancestral portraiture...
Faculty members who frequent the Signet for lunch and tea include Kenan Professor of History and Literature John L. Clive, Peabody Professor of Music Emeritus Elliot Forbes, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature Mason Hammond, and Honorary Curator of the Farnsworth Room and Woodberry Poetry Room in Harvard College Library David T.W. McCord...
After warm greetings, embraces, and offers of tea, we sat down to talk with the Luries--Emmanuel, Judith and their two daughters, 10-year-old Bella and 18-year-old Anna. Emmanuel was expelled from his job as an organic chemist and now has a job in the agriculture industry where he said he was very frustrated. Judith, trained as an English teacher, is not employed. The Luries are in a position typical for refuseniks--after applying for visas they frequently are expelled from their jobs or demoted to lower positions in the same occupation. During our trip...
...white-haired man with owlish glasses opened the door, took one look at the two Americans with over-stuffed knapsacks, and said softly, "Welcome." Yureii Medvedkov took their coats, and offered them tea. A glance around the living-room, accompanied by Yureii's explanations in English, gave visual evidence of the Medvedkov's many friends in the West. Dozens of familiar American "no-nukes" bumper-stickers were pasted to the walls and bookshelves. Hanging on the wall above the couch were two patch-work sections from the "women's peace ribbon," a five-mile long needlework collection which was wrapped...