Word: teas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role that he incurred the deadly wrath of Brezhnev and the KGB. In the decade before Sakharov's banishment to Gorky, his two-room apartment was a haven for men and women who had fallen afoul of Soviet totalitarianism. Sitting at his enamel-top kitchen table, drinking apple-flavored tea, he dispensed precious counsel and gifts of money to an endless stream of visitors in trouble...
...author's previous collection of commentary, Writing in Restaurants, is a break from the demands of a difficult craft. It is also a chance for the playwright to mouth off and strike a number of disparate poses: the poker-playing resident of Vermont, the city boy who likes London tea shops, the gunner who belongs to both the N.R.A. and the A.C.L.U. and the provocateur who holds that women have no instinct for compromise and negotiation. Ranging widely, Mamet allows that "I am, by nature and profession, a browser." With the expanded confidence that comes with success and fame...
...Eccentric Teapot by Garth Clark (Abbeville; $29.95). Why pour your oolong from a plain pot when you can pour it out of Brooke Shields' head? Whether they are teapots for art's sake or art for the sake of taking tea, ceramics critic Clark has cataloged the fun. The Kentucky Fried Teapot has the head of Colonel Sanders and the body of a plucked chicken...
Instead, Bok participates in sporadic meetings and cute publicity-generating events, such as the tea party in the freshman dormroom that he attended last week. Bok's isolated efforts to receive student input are inadequate. He was willing to collect a college-wide survey on general issues in 1988, but unwilling to discuss current issues with the students when the decision-making process is in action...
When Jason T. Winmill '93 and his roommate met President Derek C. Bok at the Orientation Week tea in September, the president told them that he wished he had more time to chat. But unlike most first-year students, the Straus residents took Bok at his word...