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Nishi-Kawaguchi is a hardscrabble, working-class town on the outskirts of Tokyo. There are literally dozens of seen-better-days, commuter-line towns just like it dotting the sprawling megalopolis. Massage parlors, hostess clubs and soaplands line the streets around the dinky train station, and the odd reveler or two is still wandering around well into the morning, trying to shake off last night's indulgences or perhaps just waiting to resume them. It's the kind of place where disappointment is the default emotion and where Japan's much-hyped economic revival hasn't quite kicked in. "This...
...Potter) in September. But the best advice of all may be from Elsie de Wolfe's 1913 classic, The House in Good Taste, to be reissued by Rizzoli next month. "The color of [the dining room] should be selected with due consideration of its becomingness to the host or hostess," she writes. "Everyone has a right to look their best in their own dining room." Martha couldn't have said it better...
Elizabeth J. Heymann ’06 is an experienced hostess, having facilitated a number of dinner parties at home in Madison, Wis. She finds that the most pressing challenge of college parties is “not having enough booze.” Although many undergraduates look forward to a post-college golden era of creative and chic cocktail events, the current Harvard scene may suggest that sophistication is still a ways...
Elizabeth J. Heymann ’06 is an experienced hostess, having facilitated a number of dinner parties at home in Madison, Wis. She finds that the most pressing challenge of college parties is “not having enough booze.” Although many undergraduates look forward to a post-college golden era of creative and chic cocktail events, the current Harvard scene may suggest that sophistication is still a ways...
...Hostess Martha Stewart brings her message to the masses [12/19/1988...