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...high season for festive gatherings, which is fine if you're a guest but can be a nightmare if you're the host or hostess. If the thought of throwing a fancy party is enough to dampen your holiday spirit, you may be in the market for the crowd of new cookbooks coming just in time to take the stress out of party planning. Comedian Amy Sedaris, below right, leads the pack with a collection of edgy etiquette pointers and wacky wardrobe suggestions. Among the offerings from chefs and restaurateurs and magazine editors, there's a book to suit your...
Although the Blur Building was both a crowd pleaser and an ingenious intellectual conundrum--just how many elements can you subtract from a building and still have it feel like a place?--working with fog did nothing to contradict Diller and Scofidio's image as thinkers in no hurry to operate with more solid materials. So it's a sign of significant clients' openness to new ideas that the pair have somehow joined the ranks of sought-after, real-world architects, the kind who work with poured concrete and get major commissions. In the past few years their firm, Diller...
...before lunch, she's having them. "She has the will of [Field Marshal Erwin] Rommel," says Field, the director of Children. "But it's for a purpose, not self-interest." Oscar nominations, after all, don't simply drop out of the sky. Winslet knows how to work the awards crowd, taking her fast, frank and low-falutin' self to the requisite meet and greets, especially those with the actor groups, who make up the largest part of the Academy voting pool...
...began like a carnival day. Thousands of people thronged Budapest's old cobblestoned streets wearing red, white and green boutonnieres, tossing red, white and green ribbons into passing cars. Then gradually the crowd began to gather at focal points and to express its will, and then to march. A scared Communist official told an American businessman: 'The earth is moving.' The earth moved to the tread of a million feet in Hungary last week, and a satellite which had been blindly spinning in the Soviet orbit for eleven years suddenly swung out of its gravitational course into a still unsteady...
...People are buying things online, and it’s been great. It’s all for themselves so far, but gift-giving will start sooner or later,” he said. Despite anti-consumption efforts and attempts to direct the shopping traffic online, the crowd of shoppers in Harvard Square went from store to store to find gifts for loved ones. “I want to give daddy a black horn necklace,” said Caroline Clanton, an 11-year-old visitor from the Jersey shore, who said she wanted to go out on Black...