Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...security pass other than his amiable attitude. He would walk all the way through the old State, War and Navy Building (now the Executive Office Building), climb the steps beside the West Wing of the White House, where the President worked, trudge on by the front of the mansion and under the North Portico and out the northeast gate. Nice shortcut through pleasant surroundings. Anybody could...
...story never really gets going. In the second section, called "Pitch Dark, "Kate travels to Ireland for emotional recuperation and stays at the country home of an American diplomat. Unnerved by a slight accident involving her rented car and a truck on the way from the airport to the mansion, Kate, further depressed by the rainy climate and inhospitable people, decides to leave the country after only two days. Losing her cool, she abandons the car in a vacant lot and departs amidst exaggerated paranoia, fearing that the rental agency will have her apprehended before she leaves. Back...
THERE ARE MOMENTS, however, in Pitch Dark when a story appears to be taking off. After setting into the Irish mansion, Kate begins to describe her surroundings and develop a relationship with the staff of servants, weaving a world which for the first time draws the reader in. Likewise, after abandoning the car, she hitches to the airport with a truck driver and it is here that the book's most interesting dialogue takes place. These are the rare occasions when the reader catches Kate outside of the stifling confines of her mind. During moments like these, Adler reveals...
...says Dallas Socialite Sharon McCutchin, "you would not find one who has enough closet space." Furthermore, she observes, "every man in the country complains that his wife takes up all the closet space." Her husband. Oil and Real Estate Investor Jerry, obviously agrees. In the course of remodeling their mansion, which sits on 50 acres of prime Dallas real estate, McCutchin is creating what she envisions as the ultimate closet. The two-room supersanctum will have marble floors, skylights, a fireplace, a room for alterations, a rotating conveyor rack that can hold 400 garments and storage areas...
...confident, snappish, moralistic and salty as a delicatessen waiter's banter. For better or worse, he has come to symbolize the world's one-dimensional view of a New Yorker: an abrasive pavement-pounder who is allergic to trees. Koch obliged this perception after taking over Gracie Mansion in 1977; he kept his small apartment in Greenwich Village as a weekend retreat. He was not being cute; those who have followed the mayor's career should now realize that his biggest indulgence is just being himself...