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...cropped images and flattened perspectives into her interiors. In A Cup of Tea (1880), the stripy wallpaper anchors the otherwise impossible perspective, so tilted that the tea service seems ready to slide off the picture. Yet the scene is strictly ordered. The smooth sweep from the china on the tray through the woman's hands to her lips spatially expresses a measured social gesture. The painting, on view at an exhibition of her works in Manhattan's Knoedler gallery, is an example of her ability to distill drama from casual domestic scenes...
...busiest day is Friday, when he meets his Cabinet. The sessions have become legendary. They begin at 9 a.m., usually last well past midnight, with an hour's break for lunch. No smoking is permitted, no water provided. The only concession to mortal weakness is a small silver tray of fruit candy at each place around the long oak conference table. But as the day wears on, one minister after another will catch Franco's eye, get his nodded permission to be excused, and tiptoe out of the room for a cigarette or a trip...
...Bunny Dip is not something one eats with potato chips, but rather, in the words of the one real life Bunny present, "the graceful motion in which the Bunny removes a drink from her tray and places it very gracefully in front of the customer; it takes a lot of schooling for girls to learn how to serve in this elegant manner." Another girl explained it further: "It means they teach the Bunnies to bend sideways so that they don't fall out of their costumes...
Harvard's Tray Burns recently ran a 1:42.8 half-mile in practice. His race should be one of the best matches of the afternoon...
...contact has been restored and the 18-month-old case -- which arose when the students complained about a dirty tray in the Harvard Square cafeteria and were told by the manager, "You don't get such good things in your country" -- is near settlement...