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...House grounds. The Park Service, in turn, commissioned architects Wiley & Wilson of Richmond. "Any new addition to the White House ought to look as if it had always been there," said Commission Chairman J. Carter Brown, 47, who is also director of the National Gallery of Art. "Like the mansion itself, it should have the feel of a historic Georgian country house. These 18th century Palladian houses were often surrounded by 'dependencies,' as their architects called them-orangeries or other small buildings...
Still another approach falls into the whimsical or even bizarre category, such as Judy Kensley McKie's glass-topped tables supported by attenuated, Giacometti-like mahogany dogs. McKie, 38, of Cambridgeport, Mass., sold one of her $3,600 doggy tables to Joan Mondale for the vice-presidential mansion in Washington, B.C. Alan Siegel, 43, of Lake Hill, N.Y., recently exhibited a bent poplar chair that looks, he suggests, like "a smiling bandit." Other well-known "fun" pieces include a table by Wendell Castle, 50, of Scottsville, N.Y., with a carved wood hat and briefcase...
...Diego Mayor Pete Wilson. Right now, the state is first with a lot of candidates to succeed Republican Senator S.I. Hayakawa, 75, who is not seeking reelection. When voters go to the polls next Tuesday to choose party nominees for both the Senate and the Governor's mansion, as many as 13 names will be on the G.O.P. primary ballot as candidates for the Senate, and seven of them, including Wilson, are running seriously...
Hard times in the Michigan housing market have made life easy for some film people making a horror flick. A couple of weeks ago, word got out that officials from Universal Pictures were scouting the state for a Southern colo nial mansion and a Victorian farmhouse that they could buy-and then burn down-in the filming of a disaster movie called Firestarter. With labor costs skyrocketing, it is cheaper to burn an existing structure than to build a set. But the Hollywood arsonists had not counted on a having their job made so easy. "Everybody has dollar signs...
...plot of Rockey III serves as the only new addition. The movie begins with Rocky as a complacent and worshipped world champion; he lives in a mansion, drives a Model T around his grounds, and appears as a spokesman for American Express. Into this halycon world enters Clubber Lang (Mr. T), an enormous fighter who sports a mohawk. While Balboa runs around in designer suits, Lang really runs, getting in increasingly better shape as he climbs the boxing world's challenge ladder. Rocky agrees to fight Lang, taking on his former rival Apollo Creed as coach...