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...into the exhibition space and watch for someone who, figuratively, speaks to us," says Noack. Franziska Flögel became one of the chosen after she happened to strike up a conversation with the curator about the exhibition's audio guides, and let slip that she and her husband had been coming to Documenta since 1968. "We had read that two people were being sent each day," says Flögel. "But we thought it would be the mayor, not people like us." The next thing Franziska knew, Noack was asking if she would like to have dinner in Spain...
...Bulli, the Flögels' dinner there would have set them back nearly $500. By the end of their meal, Franziska, an architect, and Gerhard, a civil engineer, had succumbed to Adrià's peculiar magic. "I was astonished the whole time I was eating," says Francisca. Her husband added: "This is a new way to create taste. When you're here, it's clear that it's art." Perhaps. But by the time Adrià's diners have worked their way through those 33 dishes, such abstract questions tend to fade into insignificance. At least, that certainly seemed...
...alternate "court" that she presided over for close to a half-century. Dolley Madison was the first to assume the role of what came to be dubbed "the Washington hostess," and she provided the model for the rest to follow. Dolley's dinners--used at first to promote her husband's career and then to solidify her own--delighted the politicians, and she made every guest feel like the most important person there. Living well into the middle of the 19th century, the former First Lady trained successive generations of hostesses in the art of putting on the party where...
...inspiration for the Irving Berlin musical Call Me Madam and the subject of a 1949 cover story in this magazine. Bill Clinton posted Pamela Harriman as his ambassador to France. It was the least the President could do for a woman who used her talent for entertaining, and her husband's money, to bring fractious Democrats together in the 1980s, eventually uniting them behind the young Governor of Arkansas...
...Okoth, 49, sells cabbage six days a week from a cramped stall in the teeming Toi market of Nairobi, alongside vendors hawking everything from secondhand shoes to bicycle parts. The $2 a day she takes home allows her to send three of her 12 children to school, while her husband John seeks out odd domestic jobs in the middle-class estates within walking distance of their home. Thanks to her enterprising spirit and a community-savings scheme, she can obtain small loans to keep her business going or cover the costs of a family emergency. But Margaret knows no matter...