Word: bedroom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Edison. For a nominal $10 he investigates a house from basement to attic, then makes a written report to the owners suggesting improvements in thermostat type and location, windows, weather stripping and insulation, complete with cost estimates and anticipated savings. Randolph's audit on his own gas-heated four-bedroom home in Hillcrest, N.Y., persuaded him to begin a three-year up grading that will lay foam insulation throughout the ground floor, put nine inches of insulation in the attic, install new siding and add a solar hot-water heater. Estimated cost...
Whatever happened or did not happen in the bedroom, Mary was not a large part of Barrie's life. His chief attachments were reserved for male youths. Finally, in the late '90s, he met and, in effect, married his true love: the Davies family. Arthur Davies was a successful barrister, his wife Sylvia a woman of memorable vivacity. They had five sons, each as perfect in his way as David had been so long ago. Slowly, almost insidiously, the playwright enveloped them with his charm and money. All but one of the boys adored Barrie and his tales...
...bottled scent, and jewelry she would have laughed at on that Bali beach. She smiles, says goodbye, calls Paul "Babe" one final time and exits to join her new lover for dinner. The decade has killed marriage, turned romance into a business and banished communication between lovers from the bedroom...
Calgary is already the headquarters for 483 of the 587 oil and gas companies that have main offices in the country. It is not hard to spend $250,000 for a four-bedroom house, but heating bills in Alberta average only $27 a month, and gasoline sells for 53? a gal. Thanks to energy royalties, Alberta is Canada's only province with no sales or gasoline taxes. Its property and income taxes are the lowest of any province; for a family of four earning $17,000, the overall tax burden is $912 a year, vs. $2,130 in Quebec...
...saints. Kramer also breaks with nearly all the other unmarried-women and -men movies by refusing to use infidelity as a catalyst in its plot. Ted and Joanna Kramer are one film couple whose conflicts run so deep that they do not begin and cannot end in the bedroom...