Word: fassi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the tutelage of Carlo Fassi, the Italian who coached Dorothy Hamill and John Curry to zeniths on the ice, Tintti has gained a mastery of compulsory figures and a style and grace that have moved her very much into the international picture in Senior Ladies competition...
...sheik chic? Not according to the residents of Beverly Hills, who have been aghast at the $2.4 million mansion that Saudi Arabia's Sheik Mohammad al Fassi painted blue-green and refurbished in rococo kitsch. To appease the neighbors, Mohammad's father Sheik Shams Aldein al Fassi gave a housewarming for 1,000 or so and showed off the improvements: a bathroom decorated with pornographic posters, a basement discotheque, a circular master bed that revolves at the press of a button and stuffed life-size camels. "In my religion, you take care of your neighbors," said the Sheik...
Remember that Arab sheik who set Beverly Hills agog with his mint-green, late baroque-kitsch mansion? Now his father, Sheik Mohammad Al-Fassi, 47, head of an international shipping company, is involved in a new episode of Arabian-Angeleno misunderstanding...
Beverly Hills has known more than a bit of architectural ghastliness in its day, but a new record may be in the process of being set. The imminent potential titleholder is Saudi Arabian Sheik Mohammad al-Fassi, 23, who spent $2.4 million to purchase a sprawling, 38-room quasi-Palladian palazzo, originally built in 1917 for a local dairy magnate. Some $1.5 million worth of extensive renovations later, his neighbors are agog at what the sheik hath overwrought on the city's Sunset Boulevard...
...Sheik al-Fassi's neighbors find it all very weird, even though some are trying to be understanding. Says one local dowager: "When people from different cultures come to Los Angeles, they may have different tastes, different styles, and their tastes may not fit in well with the tastes of the community. What am I trying to say? It just looks like hell." Or, as Beverly Hills City Councilman Richard Stone puts it, "One privilege of home ownership is the right to have lousy taste and display...