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...Japan, kosai-hi is the rule. Top executives are expected to spend up to three or four nights a week entertaining-eating in posh restaurants or golfing on lush greens. When a Japanese company launches a new product, its executives entertain prospective buyers to help them reach a consensus fast. Says Ryutaro Nohmura, a leading tentmaker: "Kosai-hi is nothing less than the lubricant for our enormous business machine, the very source of our economic vitality...
...time the plane landed at Andrews Air Force Base that evening, a cold Washington rain was turning to sleet. The Reagans swept into town in a 16-car motorcade. They did not stay at the posh Blair House; that had been booked long before the election for a visit by West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Instead they were billeted in a four-story beige brick, mansard-roofed town house at 716 Jackson Place, across Lafayette Park from the White House. One of a row of town houses owned by the Government, the dwelling is used as a residence for distinguished...
...objects and a movie star like Jayne Mansfield seemed manufactured on the voyeur's assembly line. There is a difference though: most of the new fare pretends to an awareness of feminism. It's a Living (ABC, Thursdays at 9:30 p.m. E.S.T.) is set in a posh Los Angeles restaurant, where five spunky women try to keep a sense of humor as they fight off lecherous customers. Lecherous viewers, however, are encouraged: the waitress uniforms look to have been painted on by Frederick's of Hollywood. On Wendy Schaal, who brings just the right mixture...
...traditional view of publishing as a leisurely life, carried on in mahogany offices and posh restaurants, has been replaced by the harrowing vision of a rat race on a roulette table. With the literary agent acting as croupier, editors must frantically get their bets down on potential bestsellers. Says Viking's Alan Williams: "If Maxwell Perkins were around today, he wouldn't have time to be Maxwell Perkins. He would not be able to sit at Scribner's and have wonderful authors turn up in the morning mail. He would be out grubbing with the rest...
...most Westerners, the word dacha conjures up images of lovely forest cottages or posh state guesthouses by the sea, where top Soviet officials spend their leisure hours. Such places do indeed exist, but the majority of Soviets vacation at dachas that are little more than primitive cottages. City dwellers love the countryside and consider summer holidays essential for recovering from the long winter and girding for the next one. Anyone who can afford to do so rents a dacha-or even just a room in a dacha-for a month or so, no matter what the inconvenience. "When I want...