Word: xanadu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...energetic, bubbly girl with sunny, shoulder-length blond hair and blue eyes that shine from behind jet-black eyelashes. Last year she wrote and illustrated a book (one copy in circulation so far) with the tongue- twisting title Xavier Xanax Excitedly Xeroxes X-Mas Xylophones and X-Rays in Xanadu. It is subtitled A World Alphabet Book, and all 26 letters receive similar treatment. In a blurb about the author, she writes, "Katie Davis lives in Seattle, Washington, in a house of five. And whenever she gets lonely she just goes off to play with her puppy, Taffy...
...locals call him el Patron. A tough-talking, leathery native of Indiana, he came to Costa Rica in the early 1960s and carved out his own Central American Xanadu, 40 miles south of the Nicaraguan border. The 1,500-acre ranch where he raises cattle and grows oranges is the centerpiece of six properties he owns or manages. Once a week the modern-day feudal baron and his Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from...
...Government's glossy brochure offers 19 different sites. There is the high-tech Xanadu in Fort Lauderdale, with poolside bar and five bathrooms with French bidets. Other bidders may prefer a six-bedroom oceanfront estate in Vero Beach, with orchid ballroom, hand-painted wood floors and swimming pool; the cunning security system permits leisurely monitored strolls across the seven-acre compound. The GSA, which placed discreet ads in major newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, has received inquiries from as far away as Europe and China. Says GSA Officer Howard DeVane: "They all know a good deal when they...
...Descent from Xanadu, Robbins...
FICTION 1. The Aquitaine Progression, Ludlum (1 last week) 2. The Haj, Uris (2) 3. Heretics of Dune, Herbert (3) 4. The Butter Battle Book, Seuss (4) 5. Warday, Strieberand Kunetka (5) 6. Pet Sematary, King (6) 7. Descent from Xanadu, Robbins (7) 8. Fling, Beck and Massman 9. Smart Women, Blume (9) 10. The Danger, Francis...