Word: bungalows
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Carsey, 51, and Werner, 46, are the most unassuming moguls in Hollywood. They share an office on the second floor of their unpretentious bungalow on the former MTM lot in Studio City and rarely go out for fancy lunches, preferring to grab a plate in the commissary line downstairs. Intensely private, both have families (Carsey is married to a former comedy writer and has two children; Werner and his businesswoman wife have three) that they keep out of the limelight. Carsey drives a modest Mustang convertible; Werner tools around in a Toyota Landcruiser. Carsey doesn't even have an answering...
Eventually he secured a bungalow on a manicured, middle-class street in Santa Monica and made that his office. It was just a little two-bedroom deal, and he worked there until a few months ago, when he moved to grander surroundings closer to the ocean. He cites the need for space, not success, as the reason, and is almost apologetic about the splendor of the present arrangement. Compared with the old office, this new place has majestic scale; there are university presidents with smaller offices than one of the bathrooms in this house. "It doesn't have a Hollywood...
...wrote, cannot be conceived simply. Few could understand this better than Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's chief dissident and winner of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize. Placed under house arrest by a military junta in 1989, Suu Kyi spent six years confined to her family's deteriorating lakeside bungalow in Rangoon. At any time, she was free to join her husband and two children in London -- knowing that the generals would never allow her back. That was a definition of freedom she refused to accept. When the junta abruptly announced last week that Suu Kyi, 50, was free after...
That hopeful scenario is far from being a done deal, however. The government made no public statement about the ending of Suu Kyi's house arrest. Nor is it clear that she is truly free to say or do what she wishes. Inside the bungalow at 52 University Road last week, SLORC intelligence officers in plain clothes mingled with the visiting oppositionists, diplomats and journalists who gathered. Many of her supporters suspect that the generals are merely trying to woo foreign governments, investors and such institutions as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund by making a single concession...
...WERE TO WALK IN A CIRCLE around the courtyard of the Beijing bungalow that 90-year-old Deng Xiaoping shares with more than a dozen members of his extended family, the distance covered would add up to exactly 165 yds. Until last year China's most powerful patriarch would complete this circuit 20 times in the course of his two daily walks. He was extremely serious about his count, carefully ticking off the rounds to himself each time he finished...