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Here, then, is my proposal. We tear down Canaday, or a survey-determined, least-favorite House, and build in its place a large mansion with hundreds of rooms. (Maybe a pool, gym and Swedish massage center as well). Proctors will be forced to wear bow ties at all times and will serve weekly teas in our spacious dens, which won’t have chairs but only dozens of Japanese floor pillows. Other rooms will be filled with Zen rock gardens and mini-waterfalls to accentuate the relaxing mood. The popularity of this new housing complex will undoubtedly be overwhelming...
...University to live up to its professed goal of being the best at everything. Until Harvard’s dorms get a little less crowded, I’ll still look enviously across the river at BU’s million-dollar high rises, and dream about the Harvard mansion that will never...
...plans to make a real-life version of The Beverly Hillbillies with a poor rural family. Says Dee Davis, president of the Center for Rural Strategies, "If somebody had proposed, 'Let's go into the barrio in L.A. and find a family of immigrants and put them in a mansion, and won't it be funny when they interview maids?' then people could see that's a step too far." It's hard to either defend or attack a show that doesn't exist yet, but it's also true that the original sitcom was far harder on Mr. Drysdale...
...Ronettes, the Beatles, Ike and Tina Turner and the Righteous Brothers, among others. But drugs, booze and paranoia ended the chart-topping reign of the man Tom Wolfe called the "first tycoon of teen." Spector went into seclusion for years and took to running around his hilltop mansion in a Batman costume. Recently he was said to have cleaned up his act. Few were aware, however, that late last summer Spector fired the bodyguard tasked with keeping him off alcohol. At the House of Blues, Spector was drinking...
...meeting at the House of Blues was brief. At around 2:30 a.m., Clarkson accompanied Spector to his car to drive off to his $1.1 million castle-like mansion in the Los Angeles suburb of Alhambra. Less than three hours later, she was dead, shot in the head, her body lying in a pool of blood in his castle's foyer, a cavernous, wood-paneled, red-carpeted hallway with two suits of medieval armor standing sentry. Spector's driver called the police, who arrived in minutes. The producer's attorney, Robert Shapiro, of O.J. Simpson fame, declined to comment...