Word: aaron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chloe Aaron, the WNYC executive who decided to drop the program, condemns the film because it "makes no mention of how the Jews got to Israel, no mention of the Holocaust, no mention of how the Palestinians treated the Jews nor how Arabs treated the Palestinians." But Trout is not responsible for reporting what happened in the past here; she is just documenting a side of the present situation...
...Aaron is throwing the intricacies of this political conflict into what is simply an expression of free speech. She calls the film a "pure propaganda piece that I'd compare to Leni Riedfenstahl's `Triumph of the Will,'" a 1930's film that attempts to glorify Adolf Hitler...
...privilege of demolishing Bing Crosby's vintage Holmby Hills mansion, television producer Aaron Spelling paid $10.25 million in cash. The bowling- alley-equipped, stadium-size French manor Spelling is building in its place will cost him about $30 million more. Just to the east, in Beverly Hills, a Japanese surgeon has dismantled Ronald Reagan's former bungalow, donated the pieces to charity and erected a Moroccan palace with five domes, an art gallery, ten baths and two reflecting pools. "We would have liked larger reflecting pools, like the Taj Mahal," explains general contractor David Conrad, whose desk is a marble...
...stood there with a bag of frosting and just splattered it wherever they felt like it." The effect, not surprisingly, is that of a stage set. "I think the Spelling house is a joke," Cozen adds. "It's not a French manor. This is America in 1989. Someone like Aaron Spelling should be helping humanity by having people design things that will move the culture forward...
...area's most gorgeous homes, like those on Strivers' Row -- two blocks of houses (some designed by Stanford White) where ragtimers Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake lived. The homes of two earlier, more antagonistic Harlemites are open to the public: the Morris-Jumel mansion, once the home of Aaron Burr, and Hamilton Grange, the last abode of Alexander Hamilton. Near the Grange on still posh Sugar Hill is a quiet riot of Tudor and Romanesque residences that shelter the faculty of City University. Around the corner is Harlem's favorite archival trove, Aunt Len's Doll and Toy Museum, where...