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...that cost, the lavish mansion, offered by the Smoke Rise Co. of New Jersey, is probably the most expensive new house ever put on sale by a developer in the U.S. Fronted by an electrically heated moat guaranteed not to freeze up in winter, the white stucco, three-story villa has 25 rooms, including a temperature-controlled wine cellar for 10,000 bottles, a gymnasium, dance hall, his-and-her saunas, and a master bedroom suite complete with a 10-ft. whirlpool bath...
Sensing this surge toward storefront living, some landlords have bought and remodeled storefront blocks, and are now renting to eager tenants. In one South Side area, Developer John Podmajersky has constructed a communal courtyard surrounded by arched stucco walls. Here storefront tenants cultivate vegetables, and hold an annual summer art exhibit...
...lucrative position when he became "bored practicing law." He had nearly decided to go into journalism as a FORTUNE writer when Yale Law offered a teaching position. After ten years in New Haven, Bork had settled happily into the standard scholarly clutter of his office, a roomy faded yellow stucco house with his wife and three children, a 1968 Volvo to get back and forth between them, and faint daydreams of some day chucking it all for isolation in Vermont. Then one evening, in the middle of a martini and a TV episode of The Avengers, Washington called...
After the airport greeting by Algerian President Houari Boumedienne, each of the visiting heads of state (59 in all, plus representatives from 17 other nations) was driven off to the elegant Club des Pins, a seaside resort above the Mediterranean. Atop each white stucco villa flew the standard of its occupant, making the resort look like some encampment of medieval knights about to go into combat...
...famous "supermarkets" beside the ruin of the Memorial church, its posters offering "sunshine." Another shop in Europa Center displays whips beside the usual manuals and salves. Porno flicks, run continuously everywhere, including the once great screen palace "Metropol," with towers, great arches, and status in its stucco front...