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...From there, look around the Jehangir Art Gallery just next door. Artists show their new work all the time, and it's also home to Café Samovar, tel: (91-22) 2204 7276. Try the parathas. Around 9, a very good place to go to in Lower Parel is called the Blue Frog, tel: (91-22) 4033 2300. It's the ultimate in the contemporary-music scene in Mumbai right now. They have live music most nights, and you'll discover completely unknown but very good bands. They also serve very good continental food. (See 10 things...
...stars, like Suzanne Farrell and Gelsey Kirkland, flutter through these pages, but the book is mostly a skillful portrait of the mercurial, infinitely resourceful Kirstein, who is still active, and the half a dozen or so teachers who dominate the curriculum. Listening to them is like sitting around the samovar. Alexandra Danilova, 81 and going strong; Antonina Tumkovsky, a strict classicist, in her fourth decade at the school; the ebullient Andrei Kramarevsky, a more recent immigrant--all speak with characteristic Russian vividness and disdain for the article as a part of speech...
...Would you like some tea?” asks an elderly woman seated at the head of a long dining table. Her gentle Boston elocution draws the question into a lyrical arc. A silver samovar and a matching spouted pot rest before her on the table like gleaming chess pieces...
...watchword ofour four years. We had regular teas to which wewore black dresses, white gloves, and little blackhats. Each one of us was required to pour. Since Icame from a background where tea was dispensedeither from a tea pot or a tea kettle, I was notprepared for the samovar used at formal teas. Whenmy turn came to pour, I was horrified to discoverthat moving the lever right or left failed to stemthe tide of tea. Just as my first poured cup wasabout to rise over the top, a dean rushed over andpushed the lever to the shut-off position...
...times. Mine included rehearsing the "Brahms Requiem" with the Radcliffe Choral Society, the Harvard Glee Club and the BSO; hanging out with some fairly pretentious literary types (among whom I include myself) in Eliot House getting high--I kid you not--on conversation and strong tea made in a samovar; attending a harmless little riot on Garden Street following an alleged robbery by Harvard boys on Radcliffe's dorms; helping to found Pro Tem, which was, as its Latin announced, an interim war-time magazine. Our advisor was Mark Schorer, then teaching English at Harvard...