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Rumpole's main locus in quo is the "Bailey" - that is, the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court, where he always defends, never prosecutes. Most days, Rumpole leaves the mansion flat (25b Froxbury Court) that he shares with his wife Hilda (known to him as She Who Must Be Obeyed). It is allegedly one of the clifflike Victorian blocks that line Gloucester Road in west London (you'll look for it in vain). He takes the tube to Temple by the Thames River. It's just a short stroll through Temple Gardens to his chambers in the Inner Temple...
...interlocutor that “Your heart is as large as an anthill in Switzerland”—presumably, the heart in question is non-existent. Elsewhere, the poet takes us to Lapland, treads on Persian rugs, compares the heart to a “timber mansion on the Bosporus” and watches deer in Auvers while musing about Cezanne’s apples—tall traveling orders for such a brief collection. Yet this preponderance of bizarre images and places is compounded by Nilsson’s decision to emphasize her most unusual and least...
...original mansion - an expansive cream-colored Art Deco affair that today accommodates the hotel's sought-after Imperial Suite on its top floor - has been supplemented with two perfectly matching wings, which in total make for 122 guest rooms. Each features a terrace that overlooks either the waters of the Perfume River or the distant stone towers of the former Imperial Citadel. Decked out in warm ocher, dark woods and raw Vietnamese silk, the rooms exude good taste, but the suites in particular benefit from wooden four-poster beds and themed décor that can depart, rather fancifully, from...
Bloom had the pluck to use other people's money to buy a $5.2 million New York City apartment near the mayor's mansion in 2003 (coincidentally in the same building where Madoff's son Andrew lived), which he then flipped for $11.2 million in 2007, the CFTC charge states. In addition, it says Bloom and his wife owned multiple apartments in New York, beach homes in Florida and New Jersey, luxury cars and, of course, boats. It also says Bloom used $1.2 million for interior-design work and an additional $1.8 million for personal expenses...
...imagine today’s superstars living such schedules? True, when Ken Griffey Jr. leaves to play for the Mariners this spring, he will leave behind his sprawling mansion in Windermere, Fla. (recently toured by Pablo S. Torre ’07), forced to content himself with a multi-million dollar condo overlooking Seattle. But, something in this sacrifice has been lost. When Griffey’s more arrogant brethren are turning down $25 million/year deals and wringing team owners for every penny before they agree to play the sport they treasure, it can be hard to identify respectable motives...