Word: xanadu
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...news sent shock waves through a Playboy regime already besieged by rumor, innuendo and investigation. Arnstein's death compounded the mystery of alleged hard-drug use among Playboy employees, and among the unceasing flow of celebrity guests through the Chicago mansion and Hefner's newest Xanadu, the 30-room Playboy Mansion West on a 5½-acre estate in Los Angeles. Stories that both pleasure domes have been the scenes of parties mixing occasional kinky sex with drugs inevitably have attracted federal and state narcotic investigators; Hefner, 48, is almost too tempting a target to ignore, so publicized...
...Hughes and a party of ten roared out of London, where he had lived at the Inn on the Park for nearly a year, and flew by private jet to Freeport, on Grand Bahama Island. Arriving at 4 a.m., the entourage moved into four top-floor suites of the Xanadu Princess Hotel. Among its attractions is that it is in a country that recently refused to extradite Financier Robert Vesco to the U.S. to stand trial on an indictment for using telegraph services to carry out a fraud-one of the violations that Hughes is now charged with...
LESSER AND GREATER men and women have attempted to become Crimson editors, and some famous people have failed. Walter Lippman '10, a patron saint of journalism, was cut four times. William Randolph Hearst '96, the Xanadu of newspaper owners, never bothered to try out. And neither seemed the worse...
...come, the presidential style of leisure may be considerably grander. Last week Nixon signed a bill accepting an official new winter hideaway for the Presidents. It is Cereal Heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post's 110-room, $7,000,000 Mar-A-Lago, in Palm Beach, a kind of Moorish Xanadu built on 17 acres of hard coral between the Atlantic ocean front and Lake Worth...
...work here. Garrett somehow has the illusion that in pleading the environment case, she is delivering word that is not only vital but fresh. Carol Kristy, another pixie with astonishing gusto, shares this illusion, which provides the revue with its life. She sings about the lost wonder of Xanadu, the time when man could think of no limit on his life but death, as if she had just flown in from there in time for the curtain...