Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pulls you into her familiar, exhausting, yet not altogether unpleasant embrace: the slush and mud of the broad avenues; the air that smells of bad cigarettes, carbon monoxide and disinfectant; the monotony of dun-colored buildings; the occasional startling glimpse of a golden-domed church or pastel-walled czarist mansion; the dark masses hurrying by or huddling in their inevitable queues to buy what little is in the stores. Much more than merely familiar, Moscow today seems as immutable, as depressingly eternal as ever...
...looks good. Generations' actors are largely veterans. Taurean Blacque (Hill Street Blues) plays family patriarch Henry Marshall, owner of a chain of five Chicago ice-cream parlors. Lynn Hamilton (The Waltons) is Henry's mother-in-law, Vivian, who years earlier was a servant in the Whitmore mansion. Her former mistress, Pat Crowley (Dynasty), is the lawyer Rebecca < Whitmore, Marshall's attorney and a troubled divorcee. These three, along with members of both families, knot the skein of story lines in which soap fans so love to get ensnarled. The older generation has career and economic problems; the middle generation...
...couldn't fit more than six people around the dinner table," Evans says. "But being the governor in Washington, we lived in the governor's mansion, which meant we did an awful lot of entertaining. My wife was a partner in the whole effort...
...also easy to decide where to go at night. Club Waterloo is located in what used to be a beautiful old mansion just outside of town. You need to take a cab to get there, but it's worth...
...prayer network began when Abraham Vereide, a Methodist from Montana, came to town in 1935 with the seemingly quixotic goal of providing spiritual succor to politicians. His successor, Doug Coe, leads Fellowship House, the < belle epoque-style mansion that serves as unofficial headquarters for the movement. Coe and his associates have tried to maintain secrecy about most of their activities to protect the privacy of prominent members, whose ranks represent most branches of Christianity...