Word: mansion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dancer named Magdalena Colon drowns while being ferried across the ice-clogged Hudson River en route from Albany to a theatrical engagement in Troy. The entertainer's body and the shivering form of her surviving niece Maud, 12, are fished out of the current and taken to the immense mansion of Hillegond Staats, a widow whose hospitality had regaled them before the accident...
...city suffers a number of freak disasters on "this day of hellfire and ice," Magdalena is chafed back to life by the indelicate and unnatural ministrations of John the Brawn, who pulled her out of the river. Then a hanged white man is discovered in a mausoleum on the mansion grounds, with a living black man shackled to his wrist. Next, a corpse buried some 70 years earlier is disinterred from this scene of fresh violence and removed to the house, where it promptly explodes...
Holed up in his Manhattan mansion, a recluse for decades, Berlin is still writing songs and, some say, whole shows. Call me up some rainy afternoon: the Garbo of composers, Berlin is glimpsed only infrequently on one of his constitutionals, out for an old-fashioned walk under blue skies. But he's still handy with the telephone, dialing old friends and serenading them in a raspy voice, chewing the fat or just doin' what comes natur'lly. Let me sing, and I'm happy...
...Pagliaccio. Charles Sturridge's essay for La Forza del Destino -- an urban mural of children's faces -- is all dour style, a Bugsy Malone in Nighttown. The Bruce Beresford segment, from Erich Korngold's Die tote Stadt, is content to watch two young people disrobe in an English mansion. Robert Altman had the inspiration to show a restless 17th century audience at Rameau's Les Boreades, then neglected to develop his night-at-the-opera sketch with any coherence. Derek Jarman's episode, to Charpentier's Louise, imagines an old diva taking a final curtain call, her mind garlanded with...
Hawaii Seafood Magnate Richard Fowler did not hesitate when a Japanese company offered him $21 million two months ago for his Honolulu mansion. Naturally, he took it. The house was assessed two years ago at $2.6 million. Aided by the sharp decline of the dollar against the yen, the Japanese have spent some $3 billion for Hawaiian real estate in the past two years, more than all foreign investment in the state between...