Word: entertainement
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...knocking down walls to create a knockout kitchen that opens into large living and eating areas. The Bermans put their money where the activity is. "We devoted a lot of effort to planning and designing the kitchen because our family loves to cook, loves to eat and loves to entertain," says Karen, a serious cook...
...tells us, "The lives of the muses greatly expand our limited notions of Eros," and she includes within those notions Carroll's not quite sexual, not quite chaste infatuations. Prose devotes a chapter to Alice Liddell, the little girl who inspired Alice in Wonderland. Carroll contrived the story to entertain her on a warm afternoon in 1862, then wrote it all down because she asked...
...wedding is not usually the best way for travelers to endear themselves to the locals, but in Coorg, you don't need to be on the guest list to attend. "Gate-crashing? No!" says Pachi Chengappa, who prepares splendid meals for tourists at her estate. "Coorgs love to entertain outsiders." Turn up at the door of the wedding hall, and you will be invited in for the drinking and dancing. The local Kodava people are a distinct ethnic group in southern India, and though descended from a warrior clan, they are anything but hostile...
Harvard Square often bustles with street performers, musicians and eccentric artists looking to entertain. But the Square also supports a well-respected music and nightlife scene that often goes unnoticed by Harvard students, who tend to reserve Friday and Saturday nights for the Loeb, the Fly or the fallback beer-filled dorm room...
...insisted that the analyst's job is, first and foremost, to figure out what a stock is worth right now. He believed in comparing a company's share price to its existing assets and past earnings. Only after determining a stock's value today would Graham entertain guesstimates of what it might earn tomorrow. Anchoring his analysis in reality gave Graham what he called "the margin of safety." As he wrote in his classic The Intelligent Investor, "Operations for profit should be based not on optimism but on arithmetic...