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Word: mansions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...long minutes of his cool gaze at the opening of Le Voleur. (This is an apparently neglected film that resurfaced this summer at the Telluride Film Festival.) In the dark, eerie moonlight we watch the burglar, Belmondo, crowbar his way into a ritzy, turn-of-the-century mansion. You have never seen such gaudy art nouveau furniture as lies within this house. And Belmondo sees no reason to pamper the stuff; he cracks open cabinets and bashes his cane through display cases. "This is a dirty business," he confides to us in a voice-over. "But I have one thing...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Robbed of Illusions | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

...declaration that there will be square dancing at some White House parties has done little to assuage the pervasive jitters. Those who are concerned may have forgotten that the late Marjorie Merriweather Post, long the reigning queen of Washington society, regularly held square dances in her museum-mansion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Why Georgetown Has the Jitters | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...most streetwise of the Angels, is also out of Texas and commercials. She won an audition for Angels because she was dating Producer Husky at the casting time. On the set, she is not considered an easy person to get to know. She lives alone in a Beverly Hills mansion she bought largely as an investment and tends her career and her earnings carefully. But she also has a romantic streak. The twelve-room mansion is a replica of Tara, and Jackie is proud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TV's Super Women | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

...mansion shone bright in a new coat of paint (applied expressly for the Inauguration). It was washed by intense incandescence, the Washington Monument rising behind the White House with equal brilliance and a three-quarter moon hanging above the whole scene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Closing Out an lnterim Chapter | 11/15/1976 | See Source »

Still there? Frank Zappa will continue his current tour, timed to coincide with the release of his new album "Zoot Allures," through December; in March he will begin a 'round-the-world tour. Then he will return to his new hometown, Hollywood, sit around his non-mansion, and work on a new movie. But he won't talk about his new movie...

Author: By Rich Weisman, | Title: Oh, Frankie...! | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

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