Word: studdedness
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A corridor with a gently undulating ceiling leads to a sitting room filled with abstract art, then a smoking room whose circular walls flow inward at one point to form a cluster of seats in the shape of half-moons. The stark white dining room, which seats 24, shines under...
ALIGHTHEARTED, relaxed garden town studded with classic temples and pagodas and elegant villas, Hangchow (pop.800,000) is China's Florence. Famous for its silks and teas, Hangchow is a favorite resort of China's leaders. Mao Tse-tung frequently retires to his retreat on mist-shrouded West Lake...
Paris has its Eiffel Tower. New York has the Empire State Building, Chicago the soaring John Hancock Center. And San Francisco? It now seems that the dominant structure in that sculptural city of steep slopes and sharp profiles will be a gigantic television antenna. Rising from the top of residential...
Behind a cupboard in his home, police found the entrance to a windowless room containing books on black magic and witchcraft, a nail-studded raincoat, and an altar draped with black velvet. During his five-day trial, it came out that Paisnel believed that he was a descendant of Gilles...
Security men almost outnumbered the guests at the Guy de Rothschild chateau outside Paris-and with good reason. A dazzle of diamonds winked and twinkled in all directions, from hair, hands, necks and bosoms. The Duchess of Windsor's were canary. Signora Gianni Agnelli's stones coruscated white...