Word: stucco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nine years ago, Harrison achieved his dream and moved into 535 Mountain Boulevard, a three-bedroom brick-and-stucco house. At that point the law firm he helped found was four years old and starting to prosper. Harrison and his wife Joy began thinking about raising a family. "I was absolutely thrilled to be here," he says...
Overall, the stucco and cleft-cut stone will give the Getty a nice grittiness lacking in Meier's previous work. Instead of the usual aloof Meieresque facades, the buildings are full of verve; they are even a bit manic. Instead of sleek uninterrupted planes of metal and glass, there are balconies, loggias and shady brise-soleils. If the new Getty becomes a lively, civilized place, it will be because, for all the white-on-white elegance, it is not pristine and hermetic, not another gorgeous monolith. The rugged terrain and Meier's good planning sense have dictated a dense urban...
...steel gate in front of the stucco house in the Iraqi city of Najaf swings open and a bearded man appears, flanked by two armed policemen. "Go away -- please," says the middle-aged son of Ayatullah Sayyid Abul Qasim al-Khoei, spiritual leader of the world's Shi'ite Muslims. The son trembles and speaks in whispers. Had not other journalists spoken to the Ayatullah? "Yes, and after they left the police came -- and it was worse," he says. "Please go away, and don't come back. Ten of our family and dozens of my father's followers...
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...
...Mustang Ranch. The Internal Revenue Service put the 330-acre establishment, Nevada's oldest legal bordello, on the auction block when its previous owners failed to pay $13 million in back taxes. Going, going, gone -- for $1.5 million -- was the 104-room hot-sheet palace itself (actually two pink stucco buildings with a guard tower). Also gaveled off, for about $500,000 more, were such appointments as couches, lamps, nude paintings and condoms...