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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...
...choose to sleep with a client, they may not. Although there are no official numbers on how many women work in hostess bars, it's estimated that hundreds of thousands labor throughout Japan in what is surely a multibillion-dollar industry. For the salaryman customers, hostess bars, with their posh atmosphere, beautiful women and steady flow of drinks, are a choice venue in which to try to impress a client or close a business deal. Most hostess clubs employ Japanese and other Asian women, but beginning in the early 1980s, more and more began to stock Western women...