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...took over the house during World War II and used it as a barracks. After the soldiers left, de Zilwa sold the wrecked property to the prominent Bandaranaike family. From then on, it was always their house, a political house - where Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike was shot on the veranda in 1959, and where his wife and successor, Sirimavo, would raise a son and two daughters, the younger of which, Chandrika, became the country's first elected female President...
...veranda at the governor's residence in the southwestern Venezuelan state of Barinas, Narciso Chavez stands up, lifts a leg and stomps the ground several times, laughing. He is demonstrating the country-and-western dance moves he learned years ago at bars near Daytona Beach. Nacho, as he's nicknamed, studied English in Florida, had a son with his American girlfriend in Ohio, and claims he's still the best English teacher in his hometown. More to the point, perhaps, he's the younger brother of President Hugo Chavez, which may be how he came to be stomping around...
...including fresh river fish, robust game and tender Zambian beef. And the library and bar are open-sided, fan-cooled temples to the gin and tonic, the cocktail that built an empire. Which is why, come midmorning, a languid groan goes up from guests lingering over coffee on the veranda as they realize they really should amble down to see the Falls...
...Consider "Brett" and "Davood," the blokes of David van Royen's domestic portraits-one a home handyman trapped in his glassed veranda, the other half-dressed on his bed, staring out beyond the noose of his window's chain pull, their masculine identities hovering uncertainly in the air. While Van Royen uses simple color printing, as do many of the photographers in the show, the lingering impression is of grayness. Even in the exhibition's most Day-Glo work, the bright-faced trio of teenage girls snacking on fast food in Darren Sylvester's If All We Have Is Each...
...educated polymath whose life included stints in banking and acting (he played opposite Marlon Brando in The Ugly American). Kukrit took more than 20 years to complete his home. The living quarters consist of five one-room traditional teak houses, elevated on stilts and connected by a breezy open veranda. The sitting room features royal heirlooms such as a daybed from Kukrit's ancestor, King Rama II, while the library includes biographies of Mao Zedong as well as the complete works of Charles Dickens - a reminder of the late owner's eclectic interests. But the best surprise is a vast...