Word: pampered
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...host club is a uniquely Japanese institution, catering to women seeking to drink with attentive and attractive but unthreatening men. Hosts constantly clean up the table, make drinks and refill glasses, light cigarettes and pamper clients. It's an inversion of the traditional ginza hostess venue, i.e. a gentleman's club without striptease or lap dancing. And it's not cheap. A bottle of '60s-vintage Dom Perignon goes for $10,000, and a few hours of non-sexual entertainment costs some of the more addicted customers as much as $100,000 a month...
...office is an example of “where superfluous spending is surely good for us all.” The message advanced is clear: fiscal responsibility, a fundamental tenet of Republicanism and conservatism, can be sidestepped in order to promote the warped idea that “To pamper your leader is in no way demeaning to those who are underneath him.” When it comes to campus issues, the ideological divide is even starker. The March 12 edition of the fortnightly paper provides an account of why Harvard should ignore the genocide in Sudan, dubbing...
...movies (This Book could pass for a loose novelization of the Haley Joel Osment confection Pay It Forward, without even the saving grace of an unhappy ending). But from you, literature, old friend? Novels are a place where we exfoliate our souls with the rough edges of life, not pamper ourselves with fantasies that don't seem to know they're fantasies or confuse ourselves with imitation insights ("That's the thing about L.A.--you can freeze to death under a rosebush") and limp stand-up gotchas ("Driving a Bentley to Target--only in L.A. does this make perfect sense...
...research linking heart and brain health is so strong that as you continue reading this article, you may get the feeling that you've stumbled into a story about how to prevent cardiac disease. But if fear of a heart attack isn't enough to get you to pamper your ticker, fear of senility just might. So think about doing your heart and your head a favor. If you smoke, quit. Get your cholesterol levels and blood pressure checked, and if they are high, get them treated. If you have diabetes, do everything you can to keep it under control...
Naaah. For Sugarbaby is that contradiction in terms, a light German comedy. Which means that Eisi, who is married to a woman too busy to pamper him, is ready for some fat-and-sassy attention. Which means that when they eventually come to intimacies, things turn out just fine: softcolored lights, unforced endearments, a jolly bathtub wallow and the strains of Marianne's favorite pop tune, Sugarbaby, percolating in their ears. This is about where Writer-Director Percy Adlon (Celeste, The Swing) gets carried away with his odd-couple romance. Gooey gels clot the lens, and the camera sways without...