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...North Goa has established hegemony in the realm of funky nightlife; the south specializes in historical funk, such as the Menezes Braganza Mansion. This rambling plantation house, partly dating from the 16th century, went into decline when India instituted land reform, so the family?resident for 14 generations? has opened it to the public. The 14th generation, named Abigail, aged two and naked as a jaybird, guided me by running ahead to open cabinets crammed with old silver, while dogs dozed on the ballroom floor...
...detractors as politically motivated. That worked to a point. A raft of grand juries declined to indict her for anything: not Whitewater, not Castle Grande, not missing billing records, not cattle futures. She occasionally leavened her approach with, well, a touch of Martha, giving a tour of the mansion at Christmas showcasing homemade ornaments, gushing over the pastry chef as he prepared a State Dinner, going on a heritage tour with Ralph Lauren, publishing a book on entertaining at the White House. But none of that rehabilitated her public image. It took her husband's humiliating, reckless affair to turn...
Summers has read Pinker’s work and pushed hard to recruit the cognitive scientist, contacting him at MIT and inviting him to Elmwood, the presidential mansion...
...Playboy: the Mansion (Cyberlore, all platforms, 2004) Proving beyond a doubt that games are for grown-ups too, this is a no-nudity-barred simulation of Hugh Hefner's life. Clad in the trademark silk robe, your aim is to build a mansion cool enough to attract pin-ups and celebrity interviews for your magazine. The better the sales, the better your mansion gets, and the more celebs clamor to get in. Unlike Hef, you get to snap the shutter at the photo shoots. The game was unveiled at the Playboy Mansion itself - which, alas, only served to point...
...nicer than the average person you meet at Harvard,” Nowinski says. “My character is based a lot on the finals club guys who thought they ran the place, the people who were full of themselves [and] who never left their mansion or the yard, with no perspective...