Word: posh
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While the vast majority of people who will be grilling the burgers and steaks this summer will do so on cookers that cost less than $500, plenty of nesters, having redone their kitchens with commercial-grade equipment, are spending several thousand dollars on this posh patio or that garden accessory. In the '90s, a $3,000 grill was shocking; now manufacturers are seeing how high consumers will go, and the ceiling hasn't yet been reached. "The backyard has become another room in the house," says Shaun Chinsky, brand manager for Vieluxe, a $6,000 barbecue brought out this year...
Until our recent trip to Dickson Brothers, where we treated ourselves to re-usable plastic bowls, a spatula and silverware, we had just one metal spoon among our four mouths. We have housing in DeWolfe, considered quite posh by summer subletting standards in Cambridge. And although we have a big, glorious refrigerator capable of storing 5 gallons of milk to my HSA’s one quart, as well as a dishwasher, oven range and trash compactor, fending for my stomach—even with the mechanical niceties of a working kitchen to call my own—has been...
...speaker--and University President-elect Lawrence H. Summers. Anecdotes included a photo shoot in which the Pope wore Bono's signature sunglasses, a plane flight in which an exhausted and disheveled Sachs was mistaken for a member of the Grateful Dead, and a raucous political debate in a "posh" Washington restaurant with Summers...
...raise an emotional welt at the Cannes Film Festival is to mention a posh party you attended and say, "Everyone was there." (What this usually means is that either you are important enough to be given an invitation or you ain't too proud to beg for one.) Inevitably someone within earshot will grumble, "Well, I wasn...
...scene is a posh hotel room. The mission? To destroy at least 12 things in your suite before collapsing in a drunken stupor. That's what rock stars do, right? And now, thanks to MTV's first broadband interactive channel, idol emulation is moving way beyond strumming an air guitar...