Word: chateau
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WHEN MY FAMILY made the pilgrimage north last summer, we stayed in the Chateau Frontenac, the colossal hotel Fantasy land of the Canadian town. It sits high atop a hill, majestic, with layer on layer of green copper spires rising toward the sky. It's world-renowned--any self-respecting tourbook will tell you that...
...Chateau Frontenac brochures promise opulence and charm, and the lobby delivers. Bellhops in neatly pressed uniforms charge through the hallways, friendly old doormen smile as they swing open brocaded doors and plush couches line the darkly-stained lobby...
This ideal extends beyond the realm of garden design to that of urban planning. Scully points out that gardens surround the chateau of Versailles on one side only; on the other lies the town, which is laid out according to a similar logic of hierarchy and rational order. Three avenues radiate out from the center of the chateau and seem to extend to the ends of the realm...
...York City Poetry Calendar currently lists an average of 15 gatherings each night. In Los Angeles the Poetry Hotline gives updates on readings; meanwhile, celebrities like Joe Spano, who played sensitive Sergeant Henry Goldblume on TV's Hill Street Blues, render their favorite poems in trendy spots like the Chateau Marmont. "Poetry deserves to be heard," he says...
...Prohibitionist movement has added to the woes of the nation's wine industry by pressuring the Treasury's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms into demanding ever more prominent and explicit health-warning labels on bottles. (One irate California publicist responded by labeling some Lake County Cabernet Sauvignon "Chateau le Warning" and putting the Surgeon General's injunctions right up front. The BATF was not amused...