Word: split-level
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...studio apartment with terrace rents for $195 a month; a three-bedroom, split-level goes for $450; penthouses on the 15th floor with three bedrooms, three baths, a maid's room and bath, an atrium open to the sky, and a sunken living room are $1,000 a month. In addition to the view, other attractions are available at relatively modest extra cost to all tenants: access to the free-form swimming pool carved out of the cliff is $100 a year per family, garage parking is $25 a month, limousine service from Horizon House to Manhattan executive suites...
Laterna Magika is a marriage of drama, music and movies, and it develops both the hoopla and the problems of the ménage a trois. Invented by two clever Czechs named Alfred and Emil Radok, Laterna Magika is presented on a split-level stage surrounded and intersected by movie screens: wide screens, narrow screens, square screens, round screens-one, two, five, ten, thirteen screens illuminated by three projectors projecting several pictures at the same time and the whole gazingstock accompanied by a skull-splitting roar of stereophonic sound...
Published in May and already in its fourth printing, An Honorable Estate was plainly planned as a Big Novel. But its characters, plot, subplots and messages are all lightweights. In a sort of split-level Manhattan setting, the author contrives to make a number of cherished American goals-including sex, booze, wealth, social position, world travel and Broadway fame-sound dull and unprofitable. Glibly cynical, he views his moral wasteland with no moral outrage. He even takes a determined new crack at that old chestnut that has been knocked about for decades in prep school dormitories and Greenwich Village walk...
Following Orders. As far as Say-Hey is concerned, Jake Shemano is "the best friend I have in the world." Mays has learned to live on his allowance, and when he is not over at the Shemanos', he lounges happily in his $100,000 cocoa-and-white split-level pad in the fashionable Forest Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, watches TV on one of his three sets, and keeps open house for the neighborhood kids...
...moon part of the cycle, we have had The Waste Makers, The Pyramid Climbers, The Brain Pickers, The Naked Society, and that inevitable-but-yet-unwritten examination of the lunch habits of advertising men, Breath in the Afternoon. Now, with no moon in sight, the co-author of The Split-Level Trap has written The Weekenders...