Word: teas
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Velina Hasu Houston's political play "Tea," about the post-World War II resettlement of Japanese war brides and their American husbands offers an occasionally disturbing glimpse into American policy. Performed by the Asian-American Association Players at the Agassiz Theater last weekend, "Tea" could have made its point more strongly. But its tameness allows it to be comfortably entertaining, and it does have its comic moments...
...Junction Town, Kansas, which is referred to bitterly by Himiko Hamilton (Haewon Huang) as a "hick town," the play revolves around a tea ceremony attended by four Japanese war brides (five, if you include one who is there in spirit, quite literally). The action takes place almost entirely in the home of Himiko, who has just died. Through the differing reactions of the characters to the significance of tea, Houston reveals the life stories of each them...
...protesters carried signs saying "Never Again is Happening Again" and "Bosnian Muslims in Concentration Camps Starving; Boutros-Ghali at Harvard for Award and Tea." They also passed out flyers as they congregated peacefully on DeWolfe Street in front of Leverett Library...
...relationship shouldn't shock us, and neither should the inevitable murder, but somehow the viscerality and the emotional reality of violence manage to penetrate more effectively in "Heavenly, Creatures" than in a dozen "Pulp Fictions," Peter Jackson's film may flail from giant butterflies to the prossic rituals of tea-time, but in the end he manages to concentrate all the diffuse energy into pure, gritty horror...
...scientists returning to Asia bring more than just a Westernized preference for cappuccino over tea. They also carry with them a penchant for challenging the status quo. Until recently, Asian funding agencies still doled out research money according to traditional egalitarian formulas, with little regard for quality. Now they are being pressured to establish peer-review panels staffed by scientific experts to gauge the merit of competing proposals. Automatic promotions, still typical at many academic institutions, are also coming under attack, and some brave souls have even mounted an assault on the Confucian ethos -- particularly its stultifying worship of professors...