Word: mcmansion
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...father, an artist with a keen aesthetic sense, was adamant that his dream home purchase be no multi-gabled McMansion. In fact, anything built within the last century would not suffice, and I’ve always lived in good-natured old houses, full of the creaks, drafty windows and unexpected quirks. Beyond my father’s fussy desire for a house with lovely antique details, my mother insisted on a rural setting with plenty of property (good fences make good neighbors, etc.). And so the last few years have been filled with frequent trips to western Massachusetts, Vermont...
Clarence Thomas--yes, that Clarence Thomas--loves to hit the road in what he calls his "condo on wheels." Shaquille O'Neal bought his own mobile McMansion last summer, a 37-ft. Fleetwood Discovery, and he didn't even need to supersize it. And in January, after finishing his second term as Governor of Maine, Angus King set out with his family on a five-month cross-country odyssey in his big Newmar Dutch Star, which in place of a rearview mirror has a dashboard video screen hooked up to an aft-mounted camera...