Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some good news and some bad news," George Stoddart told Robb. "The bad news is that state employees from 84 agencies racked up more than $1,000 in telephone calls to a pornographic recording in New York. The good news is that none came from the Governor's mansion." The largest number of dialings, it was learned, came from offices at the University of Virginia and from the department of highways and transportation. There were also a scattering of calls from the department of the visually handicapped and a state geriatric hospital...
...Saigon, now officially known as Ho Chi Minh City, the airport is fringed by old bomb craters and littered with the hulks of U.S. transport planes. In Hanoi, the capital, the memories of war are cherished in details large and small. At the War Museum, a once stately mansion located near the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, visitors gaze upon such relics as the ID cards of captured American pilots, pieces from a downed U.S. B-52 bomber, and the T-54 tank that first breached the gates of Nguyen Van Thieu's Independence Palace in Saigon...
...show's setting is a handsome, Colonial-style mansion outside Santa Barbara that has been leased for six months. Says an associate: "The idea is to have fun together, and the show will be fun too." The house has been equipped with what, even for Julia, is the dream kitchen, with two huge central islands and a six-burner Wolf gas stove. "If she turned on all her electric appliances at once, there'd be a blackout from here to Boston," says Russell Morash, the executive producer who has worked with Child for 20 years. (Morash also produces...
...member of the Air Force scientific advisory board. But the highly hawkish views that have made him a suspect figure to many fellow scientists win him respect from the Reagan White House, where he is an honored guest. He was among the 13 scientists who dined at the mansion last week. More to the point, Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth, 31 years younger than Teller, has long admired the old lion and included him in a group of outside scientists who reviewed antimissile technologies for the President last summer and found them promising. Says Teller about "my President...
...rural Texas life. Mac teaches Sonny a few guitar chords; he sashays through a honkytonk dance with Rosa Lee; he gets dunked in the christening tub at the local Baptist church; he tries to make peace with his rebellious daughter (Ellen Barkin); he visits Dixie's Tara-size mansion to say an elegy over a dead marriage; he tosses a football around with Sonny. Attuned to the movie's rhythm, the viewer will see wounds heal, friendships ripen, a bond sealed between the film makers and the audience...