Word: xanadu
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What travel-writer's trip to Cambridge, what Harvard Student's stroll to the post office, is complete without pause at that 1967 Xanadu, the Brattle theatre. A grenadine and soda at the Blue Parrot, a bourbon and branch water at the Casa-blanca, and then a Singapore Sling at the Grand Turk. A Union Jack jumbo necktie at Truc and then, sniffing the honey scent of the beeswax candles on the way upstairs, one sits down, coked to the gills but dressed to the teeth, at a Bogie flick to experience the greatest pleasure in the dome: hissing Sidney...
...home for Lady Bird Johnson. She's proved that handsomely already by garlanding many a nook and cranny of Washington with daffodils and cherry trees. Now her Committee for a More Beautiful Capital has come up with one of the more ambitious beautification schemes since Kubla Khan landscaped Xanadu. Conceived by Landscape Architect Lawrence Halprin, the master plan, to be executed with some $15 million in public and private contributions, would turn the city's labyrinthine back alleys into pedestrian greenways or community plazas, vacant lots into vest-pocket parks, and dreary asphalt into brick or patterned pavement...
Cynics suggested that the Astros owed it all to the funhouse they call home. To be sure, Houston's two-year-old Astrodome is a chamber of horrors for rival ballplayers. Owner Roy Hofheinz's $31.6 million Xanadu has an outfield with the consistency of cobblestones; the infield is a bright green Chemstrand rug that ricochets grounders into the outfield like .30 cal. bullets...
...gardens and 245 battlefields. There is even a bathroom guide, Where to Go in London, which meticulously rates the city's leading public facilities as "Good (*), Unbeatable value (**), Worth traveling out of your way to experience (***), or Royal Flush (****)." (Only Royal Flush: the latrines at Victoria Station, "a Xanadu of hygiene...
...house is no Xanadu; it is built in the seemly red brick style of the region, but there is something extravagantly not right about it. Imported craftsmen have constructed a spiral staircase behind a secret panel in the wainscoting, and an eight-foot brick wall topped by spikes encloses a 30-acre park...