Word: chateau
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...children practice the bagpipes and wear matching kilts to church on Sundays; who bought a bottle of Thomas Jefferson's claret for $157,000; who rode motorcycles and hot-air balloons, escorted Elizabeth Taylor and collected homoerotic art, Faberge eggs, 12,000 toy soldiers, an island in Fiji, a chateau in Normandy and a palace in Morocco...
...like many in his craft, knew as a child he wanted to be a designer. His atelier is on the Avenue George V, and it is his kingdom. His staff members are devoted to him and rarely leave his employ. On weekends he retreats to his 17th century chAteau near Chartres and gardens on a grand scale. He makes the rounds of his clients' weddings and christenings, for they are friends too. These women are concerned with details most people have not dreamt of: the sleeve, the lace, the length of the train. One trait he and Hepburn...
...time there. "It's like an old boys' club, where the guys smoke cigars in leather arm chairs," said Johnny Walker, the bartender at 5 Emerald Hill. Leeson began to learn to buy wine. One of his last purchases, says Walker, was a $93 bottle of St. Emilion 1990, Chateau Trottevieille. "He was a nice guy," says Walker. "He always paid his bills...
First G-7 summit (actually G-6, since Canada wasn't invited until 1976) gets under way at a secluded chateau. Long tradition of media ennui also gets under way, as London's Daily Express headlines non-event of the year...
...read Proust in French and can hold forth knowledgeably on the merits of a bottle of Chateau Latour, Breyer is the son of a San Francisco lawyer. With his mother's encouragement, he attended Stanford University instead of Harvard, where she was afraid he would lose himself in books. Before going on to Harvard Law School, he spent two years at Oxford. His ! enduring affection for things British is evident in everything from his tailoring to the trace of a British accent that sometimes inflects his speech to his wife Joanna, a clinical psychologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute...