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...rugs and the pine floors, and a shaft of the stuff glinted off the Wolfs' decanter collection and their cut-glass saltcellar collection (here a discerning eye might see that a couple of the spoons came from a head shop in Hollywood). The house held dried ferns, wicker furniture, an odd assortment of rocking chairs, a hand-turned oak banister, framed advertisements from long ago, framed pictures of flowers from National Geographies of the 1920s-phlox, gentian, evening primrose, wintergreen, bird's-foot violet and figwort-little bottles, ancient mirrors, failing philodendrons, warmth, pleasantness and no guests...
...above the rest. Up on the twelfth, Concierge Monika Lidman treats all of her guests like VIPS. "They love to be pampered," she says. In their rooms, guests find refrigerators stocked with smoked oysters, wine, crackers, olives and English tea cookies. Other comforts abound: fresh carnations, soft white bathrobes, wicker baskets filled with toiletries...
...Take bloc authority," Liao went on. "That meant the provincial governments did the trading and marketing. Villages in north Jiangsu, for example, raise tomatoes, so they need bamboo staves to make the wicker tepees that hold tomatoes up. Anhui [just across the border] had surplus bamboo. But tomato farmers in Jiangsu couldn't get any bamboo from Anhui because that crossed a provincial border. That's bloc authority...
Club Casablanca (40 Brattle St.): From Mexico to North Africa, Casa B's is probably where Rick--that's Humphrey Bogart, for the uninitiated--would hang out if he came to Cambridge. Nowhere she will you lie back in a cushioned wicker chair, whiskey in hand, with a piano player tickling the ivories in the corner of the room. His name isn't Sam, but he'll play it again and again if you want...
Continuing along the same lines. Wicker maintained Reagan was taking credit for the accomplishments of past administrations, while blaming current problems on these same presidencies. "Jimmy Carter never blamed the problems he faced on the preceding administration," he said In addition, the prospect of arms-reduction negotiations with the Soviet Union are the result of NATO and SALT agreements over the past decade, not the Reagan administration...