Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tammy, lately encamped nearby in a disciple's mansion, failed to make good on a $172 million offer but hope vaguely to return to their Valhalla. Jim questions whether the hotel can be filled again without a star evangelist. Him, for instance. The demoralized Fort Mill staffers are mostly relieved that the chaos has ended, at least temporarily. "All of us just want somebody to take it and carry on," said Dean Chandler, the hotel's service manager...
ELVIRA plays a character who (surprise!) is the hostess of a TV horrorflick show. Or was, rather. Out of work, she finds herself in dire financial straits until she learns that she has inherited a mansion. But the mansion is creepy, and it has a "recipe book" in the kitchen that Elvira's sinister Uncle Vincent (W. Morgan Sheppard) will go to any length to obtain. Mansion, magic book and menacing uncle are in a morally uptight, Salem-like Massachusetts town called Fallwell, run by gossipy biddy Chastity Pariah (Edie McClurg...
Republican Bush, with his schedule cleared of public appearances, spent the day in Washington meeting at the vice presidential mansion with advisers in preparation for the nationally televised debate Sunday night. The 90-minute encounter at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., will begin...
...recalls the caper: "I was a proper bum, with mud on me, crummy clothes, tacky shoes. In East Hampton ((N.Y.)), I went to a swank estate, and the maid pulled a gun on me the size of a howitzer." Balfour adds, "The White House turned him away. Gracie Mansion told him they didn't give out bread and water." Hogan whispers, "Only Burt Reynolds' dad, in Jupiter ((Fla.)), gave me a meal." Then there was the time Hogan donned a gorilla costume and checked into an empty cage at the Baltimore Zoo, with the help of authorities. Sufficiently sauced, Hogan...
July 1988: outside her home in Albany, just three blocks from Governor Mario Cuomo's mansion, Child-Care Worker Haziine Eytina is arrested by FBI agents. Her real identity, authorities say, is Linda Grinage, 39. She is charged with air piracy, an offense that carries a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. After receiving an anonymous tip in 1987 that Eytina was the fugitive skyjacker, authorities spent a year piecing together bits of evidence and | comparing Grinage's handwriting samples with welfare applications that Eytina had filled out in Albany. Grinage and her husband evidently returned...