Word: xanadu
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...cinematography gives every scene a fantastical fiery glow and Anthony Praff's production design is, by inappropriate turns, marvelous and ridiculous. For instance, most of his medieval castles have a finely detailed primordial look, but his contrast to these palaces, the new and civilized Camelot, is a high-tech Xanadu full of glass and chrome and parapets that look like they're made of aluminum...
After ousting the cronies, Lummis moved to stop the excesses that were squeezing Summa dry. He has sold off Hughes' personal fleet of planes and several holdings, including the Landmark Hotel in Las Vegas, the Xanadu Beach Hotel in the Bahamas, the TV station in Las Vegas, the ranches, Football Today and 3,000 inactive mining claims. Summa has even been able to unload the Spruce Goose without having to break it in pieces, as once threatened. This week the plane will be given to the Aero Club of Southern California, which will put it on display in Long...
...white elephants go, it is like Xanadu revisited. Mar-a-Lago, the former Marjorie Merriweather Post mansion in Palm Beach, lies dormant, its 115 rooms shuttered, its fountains dry, its citrus grove, four greenhouses and nine-hole golf course seedy and overgrown. When the cereal heiress died in 1973, she willed the 17-acre oceanfront estate-built in 1927 at a cost of $8 million-to the U.S. Government as a retreat for Presidents and foreign dignitaries. Alas, her posthumous hospitality had virtually no takers. Congress was reluctant to maintain Mar-a-Lago (Spanish for Sea-to-Lake) and equally...
Last year, Penders also declared that this would be the year the Lions would win the Ivy League title. He had Alton Byrd, Ricky Free and Juan Mitchell--a rich lode of talent he had tapped in his second year--all returning. Yet Penders decided to abandon this Xanadu on Broadway for the basketball wasteland of the nearby Bronx. He took the visionary gamble, betting he would be able to recreate the Shangri-La splendor that was Fordham basketball back in the days when Digger Phelps held sway...
...claim against the company for $7.7 million in additional taxes for the years 1970 through 1972; Hefner's expenses, among many other things, are involved. He has put the 54-room Playboy mansion in Chicago up for sale (asking price: $2.5 million) and moved to a 29-room Xanadu in Beverly Hills; Daniels flies out every other week to brief him, but otherwise they rarely confer on day-to-day operations. There is talk of an eventual successor to Hef as chief. One candidate for the title: his daughter Christie, 24, who is now concentrating on new magazine development...