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--Mind Your Manners Two etiquette experts lay out the dos and don'ts for holiday houseguests who want to be invited back
Whether your hosts are relatives or friends, a house gift is a requirement. Do you need to show up with it? "That's the ideal," says Post, author of Essential Manners for Men: What to Do, When to Do It and Why (HarperCollins; 200 pages). "When you arrive at the...
Long before anyone had ever heard of Miss Manners, Titus Maccius Plautus discerned the truth about hospitality. "No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days," wrote ancient Rome's great playwright. With the holiday-travel season upon us...
The truth about most of us is that we carefully plan our holiday entertaining but give little forethought to our visits. That's a big mistake, say the experts. Plan ahead to be a good guest, especially during the holidays. "Christmas can mean total chaos; to have a guest stay...
Arcand (The Decline of the American Empire) has a gift for witty dialogue but a weakness for force-feeding his story with sentiment. References to ancient holocausts and to 9/11 simply expose the intent of a director who will do anything to touch his audience--with a sweet gesture or...