Word: manors
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...green shutters of the Cape Dutch to ornate Victorian villas hugged by luminous bougainvillea - even the pharmacy is unchanged since the turn of the last century. Many houses have been converted into hotels. Best is the six-room Andries Stockenstrom Guesthouse on Craddock Street. In her high-ceilinged, 1819 manor house, award-winning chef Beatrice Barnard serves up Karoo haute cuisine: ostrich-liver paté, smoked kudu with sesame water and loin of Karoo lamb on potato rösti. Room rates are $94-107 per person...
...that extra time well; almost every track overstays its welcome. “Well All Right!” and “You Dress Up for Armageddon” contain awkward bridges that ruin potentially decent rockers. The instrumental “A Stroll Through Hive Manor Corridors” is stuffed right in the middle of the album, seemingly for no other purpose than to bore the listener for two and a half minutes. The Hives have always focused on music rather than lyrics, but “The Black and White Album” features some...
...like Dubai, a constituent part of the United Arab Emirates, says its Mubadala Development Co. will pay $1.35billion for a 7.5% share of the U.S.-based private-equity investment firm Carlyle Group, which owns a diverse range of megacompanies, from chipmaker Freescale Semiconductor and nursing-home operator Manor Care to airplane-parts manufacturer Sequa Corp...
Like the meerkats, Manor is an odd beast. The crew is forbidden to intervene, and the producers don't sugarcoat the animals' less cuddly habits (infidelity, abandonment of young, occasional cannibalism). But the meerkats are named and given human traits ("courageous," "caring," "bully[ing]"), and their antics and tragedies take place over a sound track. Manor is both brutal and melodramatic and thus more devastating than most documentary or scripted drama. Imagine Brothers and Sisters if every once in a while, Sally Field, Rob Lowe or someone else got eaten by a goshawk...
Since meerkats can't speak for themselves, Manor is a kind of metaphysical Mad Libs, in which fans fill in the blanks with their own morals and worldviews. On Animal Planet's Web forums, they mourned, eulogized and fantasized. One imagined Flower welcoming Mozart in heaven, apologizing for her earthly neglect by serenading her daughter with Always on My Mind. On YouTube, they created dozens of video shrines, scored to power ballads. Some castigated the crew for not intervening. Some debated who was less "deserving" of dying. (Flower: survivor or slut?) Others argued that nature is beyond morality. But even...