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Cynthia, a former art student, and their four-year-old son Julian, live in a Tudor mansion with a swimming pool. Like the other Beatles, John has a taste for outlandishly gaudy outfits custom-tailored in brocades, silks and the like, for gadgets (five TV sets, uncounted tape recorders and cameras), and eccentric collections (a huge altar cross, a suit of armor called Sidney...
...Irish Inn, the John Bull Pub in Cascais, Portugal), have 14 others (minimum price: $500,000) in the works, and are negotiating a contract to build 200 for the U.S. market. The crated pieces can transform a Laundromat into a passable pub in ten days. Most popular are the Tudor-style pubs, which feature white walls, oak beams (hollowed to save shipping weight), and wrought-iron fixtures. But they can also be had in Regency (striped wallpaper, glass chandeliers) and Victorian (crimson drapes, gaslights) styles...
Celestial Robes. Lowell came early to his vocation. He was a fifth-form schoolboy at St. Marks, the prestigious Episcopal prep school in Southborough, Mass., when he received his calling. Awkward, myopic, shy, dull in class except in history, he shambled about the sham Tudor buildings. His friends called him "Cal," after Caligula, because he was so uncouth; he liked that, and today is still known as Cal. His nature became clear to classmates after he started reading commentaries on the Iliad and Dante's Inferno. As his roommate, Artist Frank Parker, recalls: "The point was that you could...
...seaside white chalet called Beaulieu, which has been put at his disposal free of charge by an Argentine industrialist. Within walking distance are luxurious bungalows housing a dozen other chiefs of state. The headquarters for the conference is the seven-story San Rafael Hotel, which looks like an overgrown Tudor mansion. The talks themselves will be held in the hotel's gambling casino, where some $30,000 is bet each night during the season on roulette and blackjack. Johnson hopes to place a far bigger bet on Latin America's ability to build and profit from a common...
...been isolated by the Reformation. Appointed the Crown's surveyor-general in 1615, Jones turned into an architect of note, designing the portico to St. Paul's Cathedral and the Banqueting Hall at Whitehall with the serene neoclassicism of Italy's Palladio, thus banishing forever burly Tudor beams and gables...