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Word: ansonia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S Behavior writer, John Leo diligently strives to keep up with fast-changing U.S. sexual mores. In this pursuit, Leo and a companion visited Plato's Retreat, a swingers' club in the basement of Manhattan's Ansonia Hotel. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: Is There Life in a Swingers' Club? | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

Standing 6 ft. 4 in., weighing 270 Ibs., Melchior was oversize in every way. Soprano Marjorie Lawrence tells of the time when she and Melchior both lived at New York's Ansonia Hotel and she saw him wearing his bathrobe in the corridor. One of the hotel staff explained that "there was no bathtub in the hotel that could hold him, so Lauritz was on his way to the roof-where there was a swimming pool." His talent was just as massive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Magnificent Giant | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

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