Light and sound (Chris Davey and Philip Pinsky respectively) eloquently evoke locations (humming office, hustling airport, dingy hotel room, busy department store, grimy garage, deserted industrial estate, a park after dark).
WASHINGTON — Over porterhouse steak and cherry pie at a desert estate in California earlier this month, President Obama delivered a stern lecture to President Xi Jinping about China's disputes with its neighbors.
Obama opened a two-day summit at a baking Californian desert estate on Friday evening with a call for closer ties between Beijing and Washington, saying he welcomed China's "peaceful rise" and that both sides must balance competition and cooperation.
The Chinese diplomat with perhaps the deepest knowledge of the United States, Cui Tiankai, the country's ambassador in Washington, is its chief behind-the-scenes facilitator for the meeting that will bring together Mr. Xi and President Obama at Sunnylands, the Walter H. Annenberg desert estate, starting Friday.
The trailer stars Harrison Ford, who was in the original, and Ryan Gosling, who is a new addition to the cast, and stages an ominous encounter between them in what appears to be an abandoned desert estate.
As a purple heart veteran of the Coachella party circuit, I've risked my life to infiltrate the lavish world that exists surrounding the fest, where every year brands take over fancy desert estates and invite celebs and industry folk to revel in what I like to call an "influencer's paradise".
Prevention is almost certainly cheaper than cure: a violent, half-deserted estate could end up costing more than a full and peaceful one.
The city had been left alone to tick by in more or less the same state Heath had left it, so it might as well have been 1983 when there I arrived in 1999 - and especially in the ghostly Benwell, the semi-deserted estate where our university-owned tower-block The Larches was situated.
A quick search on real estate listing sites like Realtor.com and Trulia.com shows thousands of palatial estates deserted and patiently awaiting sale, as pools turn green and dust settles on granite countertops.
The swings on the De Beauvoir estate were deserted, rejected.
Mr. Reynolds continued to write and record while supporting his family by running a music store in Palm Springs, Calif., and eventually selling desert real estate.
