Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Magritte, The Real Inspector Hound is a detective parody; the twist here is to blur the lines between audience, reviewer, cast and character. The "mystery," such as it is, is irrelevant, merely serving as an excuse for Stoppard to play with conventions of the stage. Set in a Gothic mansion on the moors, a group of caricatures expound upon their social problems--but somewhere outside, an escaped criminal lurks. The players include a dimwitted blonde (Susan Kelly), a melodramatic maiden (Meg Schellenberg) and a gruff crippled veteran (Wise) who play cards endlessly. Into the scene comes a stranger (Goldfarb...
...deep in debt, and sinking. He doesn't much care. He and his wife Karla are both good-looking and healthy in their 40s, but he isn't aroused by her, even to sexual antagonism. Their recent marital enterprise has been what economists call, approvingly, consumer activity: building a mansion that Duane hates, filling it with trendy furniture and appliances, and one day, more than usually bored, buying the damn doghouse, a two-story log affair built to resemble a Western fort. Naturally Duane's red- eyed pooch Shorty won't go near this oddity. McMurtry neatly establishes both that...
...Tammy to their respective limosines. Tammy is able to swipe some of the cash off the stage and exchange it for a few hits of valium before she and her entourage are scurried away to continue their work for God somewhere in the Holy Jacuzzi of their Holy Mansion. On the way out, Barbara Walters manages to get a question through to Jim Bakker...
...accepted the funds and will spare me! Spare me that is, provided I promise to use His money to buy myself and even bigger mansion, a larger jacuzzi, more servants, more limosines, and one of those nice polyester suits...
...know the amount. In recent years, says the Observer, the couple has amassed $700,000 worth of real estate and luxury cars, including a $404,000 home now up for sale in Palm Desert, Calif. Last week they were in residence at a borrowed Palm Springs mansion, while Tammy continued outpatient treatment at the Betty Ford Center for addiction to prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The loss of their ministry, said Tammy, has hit them very hard. "Jim and I are both very sad," she said. "We're hurting...