Word: mansion
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...rescue. Probably the most renowned canine in the Reagan menagerie is Lucky, the Bouvier des Flandres sheep dog who arrived as a Christmas present from the March of Dimes girl a year and a half ago. Despite the dog's charms, Lucky proved too rambunctious for the presidential mansion and was shipped off to permanent exile last Thanksgiving. After her final flight aboard Air Force One, Lucky stormed down the gangway in full view of TV cameras and, characteristically, relieved herself on the Point Mugu Naval Air Station tarmac...
...title song, Simon says, is not about Elvis Presley or his Memphis home but about a "state of peace." Simon's double edge is at his keenest here, using a country boy's dream mansion, which turned into a mausoleum, as an ironic counterpoint to Homeless, sung a cappella with South African Gospel Group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The rhythms washing over Graceland are infectious and inflective enough to shame rap silly, from the lovely, funky arc of Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes to the spooky snap of The Boy in the Bubble. African musicians appear on nine...
...gets a wry pleasure out of occasionally seeing some grant-enriched professor in first). He seems quite unconcerned about his salary ($128,900), which is less than he pays several of his deans. He was the first president since 1911 who chose not to live in the presidential mansion in the Yard, preferring to remain in his colonial home in Elmwood. As he walks across the Yard, he often stoops to pick up pieces of litter...
...stepchildren also have prevented their half-sister from using Clarendon Court, the palatial Newport mansion where Mrs. von Bulow twice became comatose during Christmas holiday visits...
...Danish-born socialite, acquitted last year of twice trying to kill his heiress wife, Martha "Sunny" von Bulow, also said the offer included his renouncing of any claims on his estimated $14 million share of her $75 million gas and utilities fortune, her Newport mansion and their luxurious New York apartment...