Word: teas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their parents' -- and they probably do have more in common with their video-culture peers around the globe than with Russians of the older generation. Still, it is hard to imagine that Russia could ever turn completely into a nation of time-card punchers too busy to philosophize over tea. Would they still be Russians...
YEVGENI SLAVUTIN Director "The whole world is about to perish, and you sound like you want to drink tea!" shouts director Yevgeni Slavutin, 44. He is taking two actresses through the crucial scene in an existentialist drama, where a chance encounter between a city woman and a peasant turns into a test of strength that will decide the fate of the universe. Viewers must believe, he says, that this morality play is "their own story." Slavutin's Student Theater at Moscow State University has dramatized the most tumultuous events of the Soviet demise in the language of vaudeville sketches...
Does the N.R.A. know about this? One Tex-Mex place features waitresses who shoot tequila and mixers from little pistols. Now waiters in elegant eateries are wielding pepper guns. Watch out for coffee, tea and wine guns. And duck...
Hillary went about her business with no gaffes, speaking to the Children's Defense Fund, sipping tea with Barbara (though not pouring it), and getting advice on raising her 12-year-old daughter Chelsea. Mrs. Bush suggested that her guest might knock down a wall to create one large bedroom. Barbara also recommended the National Cathedral School, where her daughter Dorothy went, because faculty members there know how to handle the children of high government officials...
...experience of 1992 argues for a careful, perhaps even slow assumption of responsibility. Washington remains the heart of tea-pouring country, where Senate wives still hold Red Cross blood-bank drives and frustrated political wives have a long tradition of giving up their high-powered careers to advance their husbands'. Marilyn Quayle was not worried about preserving her essential nature as a woman until the demands of her husband's rising political career required her to give up her law practice. She often complained about not being valued in her own right, and about her treatment by reporters when...