Word: stuccoed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courthouse at Jasper had never seen anything like it before. There, just inside the massive French doors on the 110-year-old yellow stucco building, were an X-ray machine and a metal detector to screen everyone entering the building. But, of course, the little logging town hasn't been quite the same since June 7, 1998, when a black man was chained to the back of a pickup and dragged three miles to his death, pieces of him, including his head, falling by the wayside. Now the first of three white men accused of the crime...
Hermila Sanchez wanted a house that she could find in the dark. Muted pastels were the predominant colors in her hometown of South Gate, 10 miles south of Los Angeles, where the dusty heat further blanches the stucco residences to uniformity. But Home Depot's Navajo White and Swiss Coffee were not for Sanchez. And so, for her very first home, the accountant chose blue. Not a dainty cornflower or staid navy but the kind of blue that makes your eyes sting on a bright...
Palm trees and pink stucco houses, flat blue cloudless skies and wide curving roads, the warm, salty smell of the ocean--home. Yes, I've returned to Southern California where the only bricks are adobe, where the weather is easy to predict and where the sights and sounds are comfortable and familiar...
...children. Meanwhile, Dr. Lewinsky charged Lewis with running up his credit-card bills in anticipation of the divorce. The settlement downsized the family's life-style; Bernard Lewinsky, who paid $6,000 a month in spousal and child support after the settlement, now lives in a one-story stucco house. It is worth $700,000, but it lies in a modest section of Brentwood, a few blocks from Nicole Brown Simpson's house...
After jamming the remaining sweaters in boxes, dragging down the last bag of trash that had accumulated over the past year, I fled; I fled from the constant gray drizzle, the looming brick and threatening deadlines that define Harvard to the palm trees, cloudless skies and pink stucco that are La-La Land, Los Angeles, home. A compilation of luck and lack of planning landed me a job as a production assistant in the business Los Angeles is renowned for worldwide--the movie...