Word: duplex
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...their husbands earn similar paychecks building houses and factories, thanks to the construction boom, or working at jobs once limited to large collectives, like raising pigs and ducks. Liao's husband builds houses. With their combined income of $670 a year, they were able to buy a three-room duplex for $1,700. The collective chipped in about $300, and the couple will pay the balance over several years. Liao does not begrudge the debt, since it symbolizes better times. "We used to live under a straw roof," she says. Her next big purchase: a color TV to replace...
...museum exits. These days, you can stay in hotels that are part accommodation, part art space. Occupying a former orphanage on a preserved, 19th century red-brick square, the Hotel Arena was both art center and hostel until it went upmarket some years ago, and six new, mostly duplex suites have been added. These showcase work by the Netherlands' hottest artists and designers, including Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, and the overall look is conspicuously contemporary. Arena also houses Tonight, the city's nightclub du jour, in an old chapel. tel: (31?20) 850 2420; www.hotelarena.nl A little more...
...Occupying a former orphanage on a preserved, 19th century red-brick square, the Hotel Arena, tel: (31-20) 850 2420, was an art center-cum-hostel until it went upmarket some years ago, and six new, mostly duplex suites have been added. These showcase work by the Netherlands' hottest artists and designers, including Piet Hein Eek and Marcel Wanders, and the overall look is conspicuously contemporary. Arena also houses Tonight, the city's nightclub du jour, built in an old chapel...
...Hanks needs to win an Oscar for The Ladykillers. The Sexy Beast-meets-Duplex premise seems pretty flimsy, but when Hanks starts guffawing like some maniacal demon clown and demanding “waffles forthwith,” I begin giggling uncontrollably...
...What is a principal residence? If you spend seven months a year in a Baltimore, Md., duplex and five in a Miami condo, it's the duplex. You can easily prove you used it as your main home for two (not necessarily consecutive) years of the five before you sold; just produce appropriate bills and receipts. (Year-round landscaping bills won't cut it, but supermarket receipts will...