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Noir splendor
Times Staff Writer"I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on $4 million." The mansion Philip Marlowe is about to enter at the beginning of Raymond Chandler's...Tags: Lauren Bacall, Crime, Law and Justice, Blackmail and Extortion, Travel, England
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Comforted by Asilomar's natural history
Times Staff WriterUsually I find solace in traveling. It's the going, not the place, and sometimes it doesn't much matter where I end up as long as I can escape my unquiet spirit and world. But at Asilomar, a conference center on the Monterey Peninsula, it's the place that...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Travel, Dog (animal)
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Will Power
The woman who sheds her assigned domestic role to make things happen in the community in which she lives, who walks out of her house and wrenches or wills or cajoles one or another raw frontier boomtown into an approximation of a city, was once a familiar...Tags: University of California, Newspaper and Magazine, Finance, Culture, Arts and Culture
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Billy Graham Is Frail, but Mission Is Strong
Times Staff WriterHe is 86 now and suffering from Parkinson's disease, a progressive nervous disorder that makes it difficult for him to write by hand. He is using a walker as he recuperates after two falls earlier this year that broke his pelvic bone in three places....Tags: Wars and Interventions, Richard Nixon, Religious Texts, Billy Graham, Lyndon B. Johnson
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Sunshine estates
Times Staff WriterIt was the Gilded Age, a post-Civil War, pre-Great Depression era when the rich got richer and those who had it flaunted it, building grand and grandiose mansions and hotels as Rococo-Beaux Arts-Renaissance expressions of what they deemed the apogee of...Tags: Health, Crime, Law and Justice, Arts, State Budgets, Travel
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At play on Oregon's coast
Times Staff WriterLess than a century ago, a mansion rose above these chiseled cliffs like some San Simeon of the Oregon coast: 10 bedrooms and baths, not counting servants' quarters. Living room with arguably the best view in the state. And a 52-foot Roman bath that could...Tags: Travel, Cranberries, Family, Environmental Issues, Death
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Chew. Spit. Repeat.
For the TimesLooking back, the truest sign that then-Vivendi Universal honcho Jean-Marie Messier was toast may have come when he showed up for a public forum at the Beverly Hilton two years ago with Viacom Chief Executive Sumner Redstone and other entertainment...Tags: Anthropology, University of California, Irvine, Akio Morita, William Goldman, Electronics
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In the shadow of celebrities and soldiers
Times Staff WriterOne of the first signs that we were on an Army base was this posting on the path that leads to the Hacienda Guest Lodge: "You are entering a no-hat, no-salute area." The second came on our first morning here, the kind of day that only California can...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Armed Forces, Hunting, Hotels and Accommodations, Television
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Gore Vidal as Teacher
Times Book EditorGore Vidal has his work cut out for him. In order for historical fiction like his to work as literary art, it is necessary that it not be required to do all of history's work for it. History must be knowledge already held in common if the central,...Tags: Cato Corporation, Theodore Roosevelt, Irving Howe, Thomas Edison, Arts and Culture
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"Empire" by Gore Vidal
Gore Vidal and History are on breezy first-name terms, but there is a trickle of irritation underneath. As mentor, Vidal has reservations about his protege. In his fictional re-creations of our nation's political life--"Burr," "Lincoln," "1876,"...Tags: Wars and Interventions, John Marshall, William McKinley, Arts and Culture, Aaron Burr
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Penn State student Brittany Horn wins 2013 Flamminio scholarship at PAPME annual meeting
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State University student Brittany Horn was awarded the 2013 Ralph Flamminio Memorial Scholarship at the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors' annual meeting Friday. The award honoring the former editor of The...Tags: Media Industry, Culture, Allentown, Human Interest, Colleges and Universities
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DVD reviews: 'Jack Reacher,' 'Mama' and 'Safe Haven'
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review"Jack Reacher" (2012, PG-13, 130 min., $30.99) Filmed in Pittsburgh, "Jack Reacher" didn't enjoy the best run in theaters. The picture, which is heavy on guns, ventured onto the silver screen around the same time as the tragic Sandy Hook Elementary School...Tags: Oscar Isaac, Tom Cruise, Jack Reacher (movie), Genres, Judaism
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