Word: teas
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There is a new sophistication to private-banking clients that has taken some old-line European banks by surprise. "People have this image of private banking as a crusty old frock-coated Lord and Lady Jemima Puddleduck having tea with the bank manager," says Simon de Ferrer of the Royal Bank of Canada. "But the new wealth is more like Richard Branson"--the flamboyant British founder of Virgin Atlantic Airways and Virgin Records...
Meanwhile, the upper samurai class, now that Japan was politically unified, had less butchery to do and more time to spend on matters of high culture, especially the observance of form in such areas as calligraphy, the "way" of tea and the artifacts that were tied into it, ceremonial dress, and brush painting linked to the imported cult of Zen Buddhism. Some of the most memorable samurai objects in this show could not have had much military use; they are kawari kabuto, spectacular parade helmets--the ancestors of Darth Vader's mask--worn to impress the living daylights...
...Winter Solstice Reunion: The only genre Windham Hill does well is the genre they invente--though to appreciate it you must have a taste for musical Cheez-Whiz. This is music for people who telecommute from their office in Western Mass. and spend all their time drinking chamomile tea while sitting on their windowseat wearing slippers and heather-grey leggings while blinking into the snowflakes. Better synthetic picks include The Manaheim Steamroller Christmas Album, and A Fresh Aire Christmas-from the guys who invented New Age and are the wellspring of all Christmas muzak. Polyester blends are out, though...
...Kielys emphasized the length of their tenure, noting they had "outlasted 10 senior tutors, hundreds of resident and non-resident tutors, thousands of undergraduate Adamsians, gallons of Earl Grey tea, mountains of brownies, and...three deans of Harvard College...
...back do I have to go?," said one Cambridge Police Officer asked to name as spirited a crowd. "Led Zeppelin at the Boston Tea Party in 1969--from my small vantage point, it seems like the same kind of reaction...