Word: duplex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, you just walked out of Ec Lecture, desperately trying to avoid the person you hooked up with last weekend. Do you make eye contact? Do you just smile and nod? And how did they get that duplex in Pfoho with such a high lottery number anyway...
Imagine that you are Monica Lewinsky. Five weeks have gone by since your life was torn to pieces, and you and your mother are still holed up in her Watergate duplex, with a permanent TV stakeout on the street below. Your lawyer, William Ginsburg, won't let you leave except for the occasional doctor's visit or maximum-security dinner out, and he won't let you talk on the phone. It's jail! And so you pace the curved, windowless corridors, work out in the gym and page Ginsburg a couple of times a day; an old family friend...
...awfully appealing. But can your relationship, or any others, persist in the face of nightly debates about what to have or where to go for dinner? Or weekly grocery shopping? Can mad passion possibly transcend daily arguments about the merits of renting or buying? Getting a loft or a duplex? Living uptown or downtown? Hardwood floors or carpeting? Whether to have kids or simply get a Labrador and a ficus tree in the garden...
Forty years later, Martin is still cooking -- often for friends at the couple's duplex apartment at the Watergate, and sometimes baking the birthday cakes Ruth provides for her fellow judges. The Ginsburgs' oldest child, Jane, 37, who followed in her mother's footsteps to teach law at Columbia, got her father to prepare the family favorite -- vitello tonnato -- for her wedding in 1981. Their second child, James, 27, picked up on the Ginsburgs' other love, music, and produces classical records in Chicago while attending law school...
...Winslow group comprises a cluster of small homes situated around a child-care center, recreation area and common dining hall. Residents own their individual housing units, ranging in price from $55,700 for a studio to $160,800 for a four-bedroom duplex, each equipped with kitchen and bath. But everything else is communal. Residents try to eat dinner together in the dining hall five nights a week and brunch on Sundays. Child-care duty rotates among the residents, with several retired townspeople acting as part-time grandparents...