Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...described in excruciatingly boring detail in Guralnick's book, giving the reader a fairly good idea of how Elvis must have felt sometimes while engaged in some time-wasting exploit or other. In frustration he turned to such occupations as reading spiritual books, learning karate and running a ranch, but none of it was enough to stop or save him: "he was going to go ahead and slowly kill himself, no matter what I did," Linda Thompson, one of Elvis' girlfriends, noted...
...Behind the Music (Heinrich Smitt) "I was brought up by German expatriates on a ranch in Wyoming. On that ranch was a little studio that we kept in the toolshed . . . there was a lot of equipment, equipment that looked as if it would sever a limb. I spent a lot of my childhood in that studio, with my head in a vise as my poppy beat me with a cattle prod. A lot of the stuff that we produce today in these multi-million dollar studios, with all the fancy equipment, with the vises made of softest velvet, just...
Some of these pooch facilities can get pretty doggone grand. When Robin Schwartz, a program executive for NBC, decided to board her golden retriever at the Paradise Ranch Country Club for Dogs in Sun Valley, Calif., she had to reserve a space two months in advance--and then bring in the pooch for an interview. At the end of his stay, Schwartz's dog received a "report card" detailing his social acumen. (He scored high marks.) "We basically wanted a houselike place for him to stay while we were away for two weeks," says a slightly sheepish Schwartz...
...remains to be seen, of course, how long the big guy can tell struggling Minnesotans to fend for themselves while he drives his Porsche out to the 32-acre horse ranch, the Governor's mansion or the lake cabin. But the truth is, it's going to be hard for him to screw things...
Floyd Stokes, recovered, vigorous and hard at work on his Texas ranch last week, needs no convincing. "Dr. Isner and these fellows had to do some really far-out thinking to come up with this treatment," he says. "I owe my life to them...