Word: casa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this looking for Leo would be O.K. if I could escape him at Casa Quittner. But I can't. My daughters walk around with their noses buried in Leo biographies. They slather their walls with his glossies, making their bedrooms look like preteen minimum-security prison cells. Worse, they know he's out there on the Web somewhere, everywhere, and they force me at whine-point to find him. Which explains why I was online the other night, a daughter on each knee, trying to avoid the king of Leo sites, www.dicaprio.com "Rumor has it," Zoe read aloud, "that Playgirl...
While you're in the area, visit Greer, a picturesque little town about 20 miles west of Springerville. Your tour should also include Casa Malpais, a 13th century historic site and museum that features a large volcanic-rock kiva (a room used for men's ceremonies or meetings), a 60-room pueblo, a natural rock staircase, a ceremonial plaza and rock-art panels...
Alan Ebenstein, 38, an economist and member of the Santa Barbara school board, answers both questions with a qualified yes. "As we emphasize English more at the elementary level," he predicts, "we'll have more success at the secondary level." Armando Vallejo, director of the Casa de la Raza, the community center that housed the alternative academy set up by the boycotters, retorts that abolishing bilingual classes amounts to "cultural genocide...Kids sit in the back of the classroom for a couple of years without understanding, and they get disillusioned. That's when they join gangs...
...next couple of years, he spent $6.6 million (and an estimated $32 million in renovations) on the two Ocean Drive buildings that were transformed into his Casa Casuarina residence, where his life last week came to an abrupt end. Versace's arrival brought a much hyped infusion of glamour to South Beach. Soon after he started spending time there, it was hard to stroll down Ocean Drive without stumbling upon a fashion shoot. Chic restaurants popped up, and so did more and more modeling agencies, as aspiring cover girls and boys started hanging around Versace, hoping to be discovered. (Every...
Versace relished the scene he helped create. "He wanted to be where the buzz was," says Bowles, a visitor to Casa Casuarina. "He loved the excitement." Versace saw Miami Beach, where he spent, on and off, a number of months a year, as a frothy pink-drink antidote to his life in Italy, where he divided his time between his three-story 17th century palazzo in Milan and a 17-room villa on Lake Como. "For reading Proust I have my house on Lake Como," he said in 1993. "Here, in Miami Beach, I don't want another monastery...