Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to buy their $870,000 house in Kennebunkport, Me. Bush claims that he is entitled to the standard deferment of capital gains taxes for people who use their profits from the sale of their principal residence to buy another. The IRS ruled otherwise: because the official vice-presidential mansion in Washington, B.C., is where Bush spends most of his time, that is his principal residence. Under protest, Bush paid a back tax of $129,000. Another $54,000 was interest, and the remaining $15,000 was for taxes he owed on 1980 campaign monies that the IRS ruled...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo, his wife Matilda, two of their children and the family dog were upstairs in the executive mansion in Albany last week when a neighbor, Julian Quarles, 25, paid them an unexpected visit. Sometime between midnight and 7 a.m., Quarles climbed a 7-ft.-high fence outside the house, broke a window to unlock the front door, and walked in, unnoticed by the two guards stationed outside. He took a video recorder, a silver punch bowl, two candlesticks, a tray, a coffee urn and two platters...
...knowledge of movie trivia into a career as an authentic au-teur-especially of his own misery. Lucy, the girl he leaves behind, runs first to despairing fat, then to her typewriter. There she produces a bestselling novel about their wrecked marriage just in time to buy his mansion from him as he hits the skids after producing a Civil War musical starring his latest "discovery...
...group of women sit quietly chatting, their heads bowed over needlepoint and knitting, in the gracious parlor at Bourn Hall. The mansion's carved stone mantelpieces, rich wood paneling and crystal chandeliers give it an air of grandeur, a reflection of the days when it was the seat of the Earl De La Warr. In the well-kept gardens behind the house, Indian women in brilliant saris float on the arms of their husbands. The verdant meadows of Cambridgeshire lie serenely in the distance. To the casual observer, this stately home could be an elegant British country hotel...
DIED. Truman Capote, 59, eternal enfant terrible of American letters and author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, In Cold Blood and several collections of short stories; of unknown causes; in Bel Air, Calif, where his body was found by police in a mansion owned by Johnny Carson's former wife Joanne. Born in New Orleans and raised a lonely child there and in New York City and New England, he was hired at 17 by The New Yorker as a cartoon sorter; even before the huge success seven years later of his first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms...