Word: domes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view, affluent West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels from the Atlantic...
...drive there can see why critics call it "Sing Sing on the Brazos." Looming out of rlatland where the lowly "post oak" grows, the school is a cluster of penal-looking buildings flying the flag of Texas. Center of the campus is the Academic Building, with an odd dome topped by a bare electric light bulb that Aggies used to shoot out regularly...
Osagyefo (The Redeemer) had decreed austerely that no Minister in his socialist government should have a house worth more than $56,000. Crowbar, a former $22-a-month debt collector, had five houses; one of them-a $200,000 pleasure dome outside of Accra-would be called a palace even by Osagyefo. However, it was not Chateau Crowbar that led to Edusei's downfall, but a golden bed that was snapped up by his wife Mary in London. In vain Crowbar pleaded with her to send it back to the store. Implored Edusei: "An $8,400 gold-plated...
...this week turned out to say goodbye to Jackie's sister and hostess, Lee Radziwill, 29. As Lee and her husband, Polish Prince Stanislas Radziwill, packed up for the trip home to London, it turned out that their sprawling Mediterranean villa had been more than a summer pleasure dome; it also served the Roman Catholic Radziwills as a convenient base from which to seek Vatican annulment of a previous marriage...
...pleasure dome cost $200,000, including carpets and furnishings: Barcelona chairs, Eero Saarinen pedestal tables, sectional sofas on wall-to-wall carpeting. All of these fittings were made in India, but they are basically American in design: there, at least, Fatemeh got something that might grace a ranch house...