Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thatcher's visit to the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Deidesheim was aimed at persuading Kohl to drop his government's insistence on early talks, a demand that has placed him in a battle of wills with Thatcher and President Bush...
...Steenburgen, sweet magnolia condescension dripping from every elongated syllable, and Hunter, crazy for acceptance, clinging to Delmount, desperately fanning the summer heat off Elain's body. They serve well this fable about the need to realize that some dreams are better off not coming true, at least in a town where the local tramp is the wisest soul around and the pouting princess is revealed as a frog who needs to put a stethoscope to her own porcelain heart...
Five days later, in a theater across town, a dozen masked youths with shaved heads invaded a concert of revolution-era songs. Crying "Long live the King!" the royalist punks tossed tear-gas canisters and knocked mezzo-soprano Helene Delavault to the floor. "At first we thought it was part of the spectacle," said Jean-Noel Jeanneney, president of the government's Bicentennial Mission. It wasn't. The singer was hospitalized, and President Mitterrand led the list of notables expressing outrage...
...many of the buyers are youthful entrepreneurs who started out in their garages and now control high-tech companies worth tens of millions of dollars. The rest of the money comes from overseas. "I've sold houses to the royal family of Saudi Arabia," says Nelson, who glides around town in a yellow Rolls-Royce Corniche. "Also to the emissary for the Sultan of Brunei, two crown princes in Europe and three Japanese billionaires whose names I can't pronounce." Many foreign buyers are looking for a stable investment, since California seems an unlikely candidate for revolution...
...sentimentality will not halt the teardown trend. "Not in this town," snorts broker Elaine Young. "Not when you can make $2 million or $3 million." Nor is community spirit likely to prevail. "I like privacy," says one Beverly Hills homeowner, holding his mobile phone and surveying his 30,000-sq.-ft. mansion. "I hear that the people who live down the road are getting a divorce," he advises broker Nelson. "You should look into it. I'll buy it and tear it down. I don't like having a house there...