Word: condoe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...protestors plastered the Sullivan Chamberswalls with signs reading "Walsh: Condo Artist" and"Billy Took Our Money," referring to Walsh'srecent indictment
...Bainbridge Island, Washington, 30 families dwell in a five-acre pedestrian village where doors are seldom locked, townspeople share cooking duties and even the children have their own rule-making committee. Based on an idea pioneered in Scandinavia, the Winslow CoHousing Group is a kind of commune gone condo that tries to merge the best elements of two very different styles of community life: the efficiency and fellowship of a collective with the privacy and equity of home ownership...
WHAT WOULD YOU PAY FOR A dream? Radiant sunshine. A light breeze caressing your newly tanned torso. Glamour, companionship, security, all in one pretty parcel. A place that's yours, you own it, easy installments. A dream called home. What would you pay for a deluxe retirement condo? These guys can get it for you -- wholesale, practically...
TERRY MCMILLAN'S BREEZY POP NOVEL WAITING TO EXHALE (Viking; $22) is one more battle communique in the war between the sexes, notable chiefly because all the condo-owning, Z-car-driving protagonists are black. True, these four good- looking, thirtyish women friends and the men who do them wrong, wronger and wrongest are the whitest black people ever seen off the set of The Cosby Show. This is high-class soap opera, and the big, unstated joke is that the soap is Ivory. That may be why Pocket Books just bid $2.64 million for paperback rights. The subliminal pitch...
...funny as deliberate jokes, Cohen says. He often gets phone calls from people asking "what kind of rubbers we sell." But the only protection they want is from the elements; they seek boots, not prophylactics. Some callers--who accidentally let their fingers do too much walking--ask Cohen for condo prices...