Word: patronizing
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...Kagoshima to Kushiro has its own throbbing neon-lit district of pubs, clubs and geisha houses that cater to the expense-account set. On Tokyo's Ginza alone, well-oiled businessmen drop some $500 million yearly at more than 1,000 bars and restaurants. Prices effectively screen out patrons who have only their own money to spend: dinner for two at Osaka's Yamato-ya restaurant costs about $230, while four Scotch-and-waters at a select Tokyo bar can run to $120, including a tray of hors d'oeuvres and fruit juice for hostesses that...
...forests goes on at this very moment, without a ripple at headquarters. In contrast, Mr. Nixon stood personally to gain by the theft of Democratic campaign material, as well as by other felonious actions intended to disrupt the Democratic ranks. The circumstantial evidence of his involvement, whether as author, patron, or accessory, is almost airtight; his innocence becomes unthinkable...
...tradition) seemed as ignorant and vulgar to the Italians as, 400 years later, Texas barons were to the French. The Renaissance had to be imported to France. It came late, in the form of an international style known as Mannerism, and its arrival was largely due to a single patron, Francis...
...some in the Vatican, the article was viewed as an attack not on Benelli but on his patron, the Pope. Even so, the matter might have ended with Arrupe's letter. Last week, however, Hebblethwaite struck again...
...diggers found images of many more goddesses. All of them are bare-breasted and several resemble Elamite deities. One figure, seated under a tree and framed by sheaves of wheat, apparently represents the goddess of grain; another, surrounded by beasts and sprouting horns, seems to be the patron of animals. In fact, the presence of so many goddesses suggests that the society was a matriarchy...