Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aryeh returned to his home in the U.S., a 31-room Georgian mansion in Kings Point, N.Y., where he lives with his wife and five children. Then, last June, he learned that Publisher Malcolm Forbes paid $1.76 million for a Faberge with a crowing rooster inside. The purchase gave Forbes eleven Imperial Faberges, making his the largest collection in the world--one ahead of the Armoury Museum in the Kremlin. Aryeh, hoping that his egg could fetch an equally royal bid, decided to put it on the block at Christie's in Manhattan...
They had visited Savannah many times, beguiled by its aged squares and majestic live oaks. They bought a shabby mansion for $150,000, the mortgage, as well as a Small Business Administration loan, going in Elizabeth's name. Explaining the absence of her husband's name from the documents, Elizabeth says, "When women decide to do something, make a career, it ought to, well, it ought to be fair." For Michael's part, he was going to devote a year to getting Elizabeth's restaurant on its feet on the ground floor and getting their living quarters organized...
...stored in a box, and that all three endings are unpersuasive. (If choose you must, opt for Ending C.) Writer-Director Jonathan Lynn apparently felt so obliged to maintain the game's conventions, in which players are invited to solve a mystery of the multiple-murders-in-a-mansion variety, that he allowed himself no time for dialogue or business that rises above the mechanical. Such good performers as Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan and Martin Mull are driven breathless and charmless trying to keep up with the plot's inane demands. To amend a phrase: Who cares...
...Santa lives in the North Pole, you say. Guess again. Military satellite photos of the icecap have shown no evidence of Santa's workshop anywhere above the 66th parallel. A brief glimmer of hope for believers occurred in 1958, when a NATO radar team on patrol spotted a large mansion and toy factory. However, experts soon discovered this "Christmas Kingdom" to be nothing more than an abandoned Soviet missile tracking station...
...finally in June, the eyes of the nation turned to a Providence courtroom, where prominent socialite Claus von Bulow stood accused of killing his wife in their Newport mansion...