Word: oceanfront
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...Painter children decided to go alone last Thursday to scatter their mother's ashes around the oceanfront she loved. It was a mistake, and it wrenched their quiet memorial out of control. Despite warnings of rough weather, they chose a point of land well out to sea and only 20 ft. above the ocean. That wasn't enough to protect them from the huge wave that exploded 25 ft. upward and knocked them into the water...
...Camp David, believes the President is getting good rest on the weekends -- jogging the wooded paths, hitting golf balls and taking frequent naps. But against the urgings of Dr. Lee, Bush last week heeded the fears of his political handlers and curtailed a planned 11-day vacation at his oceanfront mansion in Kennebunkport, Me. Instead he scheduled several new campaign trips and ordered his speechwriters to serve up tougher rhetoric for his surrogates and him. "I've been going through a little javelin catching . . . from the political opposition," Bush said Friday. "They've been dishing it out for 10 months...
...have cost them about $58,000. They declare their voting residence in Texas, which collects no income tax, even though they own no home there and spent only three days in the state last year. Had the First Family paid state income tax in Maine, where they own an oceanfront mansion and spent 40 days in 1991, they would have been out $59,000 more...
Then the Kennedy clan arrived for what Senator Teddy called a "traditional Easter weekend" at the white stucco oceanfront mansion his father bought from Rodman Wanamaker in 1933. This year the weekend included a Good Friday night outing for the Senator, his son Patrick and nephew William Kennedy Smith at Au Bar, the club of the moment, where a mixture of old money, European quasi- royalty, young model-waitresses and the occasional male in a leather miniskirt boogie to loud music. Ted Kennedy sipped his usual, Chivas Scotch, until closing time at 3:30 a.m., when the three men returned...
...with an audacious maneuver she made 21 years ago in the seaside town of Cape May, N.J. The community is a melange of Victorian follies -- gingerbread homes with broad, windswept verandas -- that had once been a summer playground of the wealthy. But it fell from favor and became an oceanfront backwater...