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...Shanghai whose top floor, called Lovers' World, features 15 banquettes where couples can smooch in privacy. Even the People's Liberation Army has got into the act. Knowing that . swank hotels are truly the country's most exotic tourist attractions, the P.L.A. is a co-owner of Beijing's poshest, the Palace, where two gold-colored Rolls-Royce Corniches are available for special guests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...have also upheld beach access under the more legally traditional "doctrine of custom." When the beaches have always been open to the public, these courts have held, they must remain so. In Hawaii a tough law forced even the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, one of the world's poshest resorts, to build an access path to the beach for the public. The hotel, however, has reduced the flow of ordinary tourists by charging high parking fees. Such indirect attempts to limit beach-going crowds are common. Resort towns often impose parking restrictions and stiff bridge and beach tolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Gritty Battle for Beach Access | 8/27/1984 | See Source »

...Confounded by the driver's servile attentions Goldman wondered. "What does this have to do with writing." On the road, he saw row upon row of identical, sardine-packed houses and asked. "Is this a housing development?" Laughing, the driver explained that it was in fact, one of the poshest sections of Beverly Hills Goldman took this as a warning, thinking. "Be careful People are strange out here...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: Behind the Glitter | 4/22/1983 | See Source »

Located on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, Paris' poshest shopping avenue, Minim's features the miniwich, a two-bite sandwich for seven francs (about $1) that is stuffed with such fillings as goose liver pâté or tomato and Gruyère cheese. For a little more than $3, patrons can partake of "eggplant caviar" in an avocado boat or hearts of palm peppered with paprika. While the $6 to $9 bill for a full meal may be more than at a Burger King in Paris, the price beats the $75 average at Maxim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Goosewiches to Go | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

...Court of St. James's has traditionally gone to those who could afford to supplement the U.S. embassy's presumably meager budget (currently $49,500) for entertainment and related expenses. However, Carter aides have vowed that personal wealth will not be an ambassadorial requirement in even the poshest post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPOINTMENTS: The Search for Excellencies | 4/4/1977 | See Source »

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