Word: split-level
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...breakdown in family technology since the days when the arts of burping and diapering, of baking, basting and berry-bottling, were passed directly from mother to daughter. Similarly, today's boy is caught early in the educational status mill, so that by the time he acquires a split-level of his own, he has failed to learn from Dad, and so must learn from a book, the management of hammer, nails, plane, saw, screwdriver and puttymanship needed to keep the place from falling about his and his loved ones' ears...
This volume is apparently designed to feed the fantasies of split-level people who yearn to wake up one morning in a Palladian villa, a Roman palazzo or a great Georgian house in County Wicklow. The sumptuous interiors on display evoke the spacious days when every European princeling was building his own little Versailles and architects like Nash, Vanbrugh, Inigo Jones and Wyatt were adapting Italian magnificence for English country gentlemen. The modern eye can only goggle in awe at heroic staircases, ceilings bulging with putti, acres of marble floors reflecting miles of gilded plaster. Magnificence had become largely...
...rest of the cast, except for Martin Andrucki and Sheila Hart, isn't worth mentioning. He interpreted Mercutio as a flit and she-with another director might have been an okay Nurse. Frank Hartenstein's set was a split-level bungalow that converted into a shower...
...nervous in public that he sometimes breaks out in a rash, incessantly smokes black Sherman's Cigarettellos. He is not married, but unlike many designers who squire their customers to public events, he shuns big parties and nightclubs. Instead, he prefers entertaining small groups in his modern split-level Hollywood Hills house, which he has decorated in austere white with leather-tile floors and classic Mies van der Rohe and Charles Eames furniture...
...Exercycle in the recreation room of his $35,000 split-level home in a white section of New Rochelle, just north of New York City. For transportation he rides a commuter train through Harlem to his midtown Manhattan office, along with white suburbanites. Yet he has more of the knight errant in him than merely the song. On the night of June 22, after New York police disclosed a plot by the Revolutionary Action Movement to murder Young and other Negro leaders, he paid a late visit to Harlem to see for himself how he stood in the ghetto, where...