Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people he might befriend, if only he could break through their obsessive isolation with entertainment machines -- a Walkman, a boom box, a video camera, a TV monitor. Irwin himself carries a remote control, purportedly hooked up to the tiers of curtains onstage and the sound system that sporadically blares Tea for Two while he attempts a soft-shoe...
...phone call last December from consumer advocate Ralph Nader spurred Jerry Williams of Boston to help organize a citizens' revolt against the proposed 51% congressional pay raise. Among the tactics: deluging members of Congress with tea bags as a reminder of the Boston Tea Party...
Glasnost may mean greater openness in the U.S.S.R., but it isn't every day that you can drop in for tea with the Soviet Foreign Minister. But last week Moscow bureau chief John Kohan and correspondent Ann Blackman did, joining Eduard Shevardnadze in his seventh-floor Kremlin office for tea and his first interview with an American magazine. At one point Shevardnadze, graciously offering a cup to Blackman, allowed that by his own count, he has appeared in TIME on at least 40 occasions...
Months before a show, Kelly is in high gear. Red sweat pants peeping from under the overalls, he sits high at his drafting table, drawing in deft strokes, crumpling up sketches one after another and sipping hot tea from a tall glass. Interruptions are constant. "No!" he barks, surveying a list of proposed models. "We need someone with de vraies fesses -- a real fanny." The sultry beauties who glower through most French fashion shows must learn to prance, dance, skip and even smile for Kelly's semiannual follies. He dismisses another candidate offhandedly: "Tell her she can do my show...
...until there is a lot of turbulence before you serve the passengers. This is very important, since nauseous passengers do not eat much, and the airline can recycle the unused food. Turbulence is also essential when serving drinks. Make sure to lean over seated passengers when pouring scalding hot tea or coffee...