A friend bought her a new Gucci, she explained recently at an East Side dinner she attended with the actor Griffin Dunne.
They've been to one too many Upper West Side dinner parties in which they've been forced single-handedly to take on a tableful of pro-Palestinian Jews or to admit to praying periodically.
The opening paragraphs of your column will be the talk of many a chic and well-knowing Upper West Side dinner gathering this weekend as so many in New York hunker down to survive Irene (and those of us in earthquake land wish all of you well in that regard).
Volunteers can stay for a minimum of two weeks and a maximum of eight, and will need the hard work to burn off the big, fire-side dinners, including game stroganoff and local stews served with millpap, a mashed potato-like maize.
And by the time Bill Clinton came to Washington, the political women who had the ear of the capital's most powerful men were not sitting by their side at dinner tables -- they were in Congress, in cabinet meetings or in K Street strategy sessions.
Dance a little salsa, put the salad to the side at dinner, show him you're a family gal and tada!
But if you've ever wanted to make like Anthony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern and take a walk on the wild side, this dinner is for you!
Try a few grapes and a slice of cantaloupe with breakfast, a kiwi or apple with a sandwich of tomato and avocado for lunch, and a plate of skin-on Russet potatoes and artichoke as sides for dinner.
This time though we're told that the pair got along famously at the awards ceremony, exchanging pleasantries as they ate dinner side-by-side.
Prepare larger batches of dishes such as the supergrains and the asian slaw, so that you have extra sides for dinners.
Everything – annual reports, street-side observation, dinner-party talk – says brands selling one or other version of updated, easy, comfortable, upper-middley "English" taste in clothes or interiors are doing well.
