Word: teas
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...strife Vienna is forced to endure; it is about language. In sentence after lush sentence, Mosby is intent on showing the reader that she was primarily a poet before trying fiction. Turn to nearly any page and find an image like this, which describes Vienna's distaste for mundane tea-table conversation: "It was as remote from her interests as the hieroglyphs spewed from the endless coiling tongue of a ticker-tape machine." The trouble is that the accretion of similes sometimes slows the story to a maddening pace. Nevertheless, Mosby's debut serves as a rich and accomplished antidote...
...conditions of life for the soldiers in Chechnya were dreadful. In Afghanistan we were issued special rations of canned meat, condensed milk, juice, crackers, tea and a Sterno can, so you could heat up kasha or rice with the canned meat. All I saw our soldiers eating in Chechnya was pearl barley with a bare hint of meat. Looking at this meager fare, I had the impression that we must have eaten up all the army's stores of dried rations in Afghanistan and that no one had bothered to produce any since then...
...else. Yet despite her separation from Prince Charles, PRINCESS DIANA is still adored in Japan. During her first visit on her own there last week, admirers waved tiny Union Jacks, children at a health center warmed to her friendliness, and the Emperor and Empress gave her smiles and English tea at the Imperial Palace. Di even had a victory at home: her lawsuit against a gym owner who secretly photographed her exercising was settled for an apology and a substantial sum that will go to a favorite charity...
...film is not without problems. One wishes Diego and the other gay characters weren't such stereotypes. In addition to sporting the traditional lisp, limp wrists and swishy hips, Diego listens to Maria Callas, reads Cavafy and Walt Whitman and drinks Indian tea from Sevres cups. It seems as if the gay men burst into tears at regular intervals, and Gutierrez Alea can't resist the trap of the gay-man-as-tragic-queen-in-love-with-a-straight-ma n cliche. Frankly, it is difficult to see why Diego is so interested in David, who is terribly callous...
Carnesale's taste in show tunes aside, his remark revealed the real purpose of Streisand's invitation by the Dean of the Kennedy School of Government. Harvard, for all its cultural elitism, is no less star struck than the fans who swiped her used tea mug after the speech and huddled in the February cold to catch a glimpse of Streisand...