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...mind was 30 to 40 a day. Before the war, Levitt and his brother Alfred had built a few houses on land their father owned in Manhasset, N.Y. And in 1941 the Levitts won a government contract to provide 2,350 housing units for defense workers in Norfolk, Va. Once the fighting ended, they brought the lessons of that experience to 1,000 acres of potato farms on New York's Long Island 25 miles east of Manhattan. On July 1, 1947, Levitt, then 40, broke ground on the first of what would be 17,000 homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suburban Legend WILLIAM LEVITT | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Tellingly, the most consistently exciting character in the film is not Elizabeth herself but her shadowy advisor Sir Francis Walsingham, played with relish and cold blood by the virtuosic Geoffrey Rush. Other politicos surrounding the Queen, like unrecognizable Christopher Eccleston as the traitorous Duke of Norfolk and Santa Claus-lookalike Richard Attenborough as earnest advisor Sir William Cecil, reveal their allegiances too broadly to become truly fearful or fascinating. By contrast, Rush's lurking performance leaves everything to the imagination: Walsingham whispers sweet Machiavellian nothings in the ear of the Queen between sessions slitting the throats of the boys...

Author: By Jared S. White, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Before She Was a Virgin: The New Elizabeth | 12/4/1998 | See Source »

Learn how to be sketchy. Fool around withopen studio life drawing-- both short andlong poses. 7 to 10 p.m., Zeitgeist Gallery,312 Broadway (at Norfolk), 623-1065. $8 asession...

Author: By Sara Reistad-long, | Title: LISTINGS | 11/19/1998 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the co-ed team was struggling through its ACCs at the Old Dominion course in Norfolk, Va. Harvard's contingent came into the event ranked fourth in the nation, but had trouble with the unfamiliar open-water conditions and could only muster a 12th place finish...

Author: By Josh Dienstag, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sailing Falls Short at ACCs | 11/17/1998 | See Source »

While the tenants of 59 Norfolk St. celebrated good news, the most vocal speakers were residents of 6 Porter...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS Omalley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Residents Lobby for Housing Ordinance | 10/21/1998 | See Source »

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