As I tried to hide myself and my jeans in the corner of the mansion's bar/reception area, Rizzo introduced me to one of the honorees, Susan Rizzo Vincent (no relation), as Seymour, beautiful in a long flowing white gown warmly greeted everyone attending.
Throughout the 20 or so square blocks that make up the town's historical section, an 18th-century Dutch cottage is around the corner from Federal mansions with soaring ceilings, which in turn neighbor Colonial houses painted in airy pastel colors and gabled Victorian dwellings in the more somber palette of the late 19th century.
Around 11 PM, Will Kennard of Chase & Status emerged from the room the Brits had labeled as "VVIP" to mingle at what seemed to be the athletes' bar of choice, hidden in one of the remoter corners of the mansion.
With beautiful economy, Collier also evokes the broader world of slavery by including background glimpses of teetering shanties, rows of cotton, stooped field hands and the corner of a columned mansion.
Constructed like traditional stone sheepfolds in Scotland, where the artist lives, the wall encircles a large tree growing near a corner of the small mansion that houses Storm King's indoor galleries.
Last week, his "camp" put it about that he has frequently vomited through the night, miserable and alone in his corner of the silent mansion; that his radiation treatments are so painful he is often barely able to walk; and that he has been rendered impotent.
Originally built by landholder Isaac Newton Van Nuys — the San Fernando Valley neighborhood is named after him — on a corner in Westlake, the mansion was moved in 1914 by his son, J. Benton Van Nuys, to its current location in Windsor Square.
There's a gang that claims real estate right around the corner from Zuck's mansion called MS-13, which has allied itself with the Sureños, or the Southern California faction of the Mexican Mafia.
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