Word: mansion
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...Charles Hart, whose words were the weakest part of Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera. Major contributions were surely made by the composer and by director Trevor Nunn, and the storytelling is also enhanced by Maria Bjornson's dreamlike designs. They shift fluidly from a naturalistic mansion courtyard to a mountain range at sunset conveyed by just a jagged line of reddish purple across a backdrop of black. The performers all act as ably as they sing, notably Michael Ball as the doomed boyish hero who ages into embittered manhood, Ann Crumb as the woman with whom everyone falls...
SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS. Not much class but plenty of struggle at the Lipkin mansion, where everybody upstairs sleeps with everybody downstairs. The setting is swank, the appetites gross in director Paul Bartel's clever comedy of sexual manners...
SCENES FROM THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN BEVERLY HILLS. Not much class but plenty of struggle at the Lipkin mansion, where everybody upstairs sleeps with everybody downstairs. The setting is swank, the appetites gross in director Paul Bartel's clever comedy of sexual manners...
There's not much class, but plenty of struggle, at the Lipkin mansion in Beverly Hills. Oh, sure, the rich know brand names: Harry Winston's jewels drape each mandarin wrist, and much Steuben Glass stands about, waiting to be shattered; and at the funeral for the Lipkins' pet pooch, Michael Feinstein plays piano. But the Lipkins and the Hepburn-Saravians, their haughty next- door neighbors, are egalitarians when considering where their next bedmate should come from. By the end of a weekend in the country, two elegant matrons will have been seduced by their former husbands, one of whom...
Caperton owes much of his success to his personal style. While Moore tended to be aloof and adversarial with legislators, Caperton has invited Democrats and Republicans alike to the mansion for pizza after a long day spent on his agenda. At first, some Republicans wanted to obstruct the Caperton juggernaut, but the G.O.P., outflanked and outnumbered 4 to 1, had little choice but to go along. "Whichever side you were on," says house minority leader Bob Burk, "you realized we had to do something about the fiscal integrity of the state...