"I like the idea of a guest in the guest room much more than I enjoy the actuality," admits one friend of mine, a hostess with a perfectly appointed guest room in her 1899 Victorian home.
Sylvia Townsend Warner's relationship with her American readers was cemented in 1929 when she was appointed guest editor of the New York Herald Tribune and subsequently became a long-term contributor of short stories to the New Yorker.
Last month, just home from a trip to Shanghai, Mr. Gilder sat in the spare yet elegantly appointed guest cottage next door to his house in rural Tyringham, Mass., and reflected on how he happened to come within an eyelash of losing everything.
Mr. Bowles is self-effacing on the question of how an editor with no museum training could be appointed guest curator of the Met's most important costume show of the year -- and by an institution that only last April canceled a Chanel exhibition because of staff concerns about the outside involvement of Karl Lagerfeld.
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The two teams faced one another in a No Surrender rematch on August 14, 2005 at Sacrifice, with James appointed guest referee by Director of Authority Larry Zbyszko, and James reaffirmed his loyalty to the Kru by attacking Kip, enabling Konnan to pin him and win the match.
But Mr. Ratmansky will not be parting ways with the Bolshoi; he has been appointed chief guest choreographer.
Nonetheless, he agreed to take it on because the Boston Ballet, where he has been appointed principal guest choreographer through 2003, wanted the "The Four Seasons" for its repertory.
Gianandrea Noseda has just been appointed principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra from August this year, an excellent and wise move on the orchestra's part that acknowledges and strengthens a growing artistic relationship.
Mr. Luisi -- a native of Genoa, Italy, who is chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and will become music director of the Zurich Opera in 2012 -- was recently appointed principal guest conductor of the Met for three years beginning this season, and his fans will soon have several chances to enjoy his podium prowess.
