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Via Curbed LA: We see it as Old Hollywood glamor now, but when it was made in 1951 for Hollywood screenwriter Manuel Seff, architect Kenneth Lind spruced up post-war modern design with "added exuberance and flourish" to combine the needs of a single-family residency with "high-life entertainment" and swinging parties.
Manuel Seff Residence (1951) Designed by Kenneth Lind AIA The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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See Republican critic after Republican critic blast these money-grubbing, greedy, lazy, freeloading moneybags who are offensively overpaid, get off work at a leisurely 2:30 in the afternoon, have three months of vacation, and can live off their fat pensions in high-life luxury retirement, jetting to Paris and Biarritz and drinking champagne cocktails while sucking the life out of the Real America.
Robert J. Elisberg: Revealed: Who Actually Caused America's Financial Collapse Robert J. Elisberg 2011
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While the soon-to-be family live the posh Parisian high-life of five-star palace hotels and swanky restaurants, Gil is dreaming of writing the great American novel like his heroes in the Lost Generation who made Paris their own.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris Beth Arnold 2011
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Via Curbed LA: We see it as Old Hollywood glamor now, but when it was made in 1951 for Hollywood screenwriter Manuel Seff, architect Kenneth Lind spruced up post-war modern design with "added exuberance and flourish" to combine the needs of a single-family residency with "high-life entertainment" and swinging parties.
Manuel Seff Residence (1951) Designed by Kenneth Lind AIA Huffington Post 2010
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Via Curbed LA: We see it as Old Hollywood glamor now, but when it was made in 1951 for Hollywood screenwriter Manuel Seff, architect Kenneth Lind spruced up post-war modern design with "added exuberance and flourish" to combine the needs of a single-family residency with "high-life entertainment" and swinging parties.
Manuel Seff Residence (1951) Designed by Kenneth Lind AIA The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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While the soon-to-be family live the posh Parisian high-life of five-star palace hotels and swanky restaurants, Gil is dreaming of writing the great American novel like his heroes in the Lost Generation who made Paris their own.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris Beth Arnold 2011
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While the soon-to-be family live the posh Parisian high-life of five-star palace hotels and swanky restaurants, Gil is dreaming of writing the great American novel like his heroes in the Lost Generation who made Paris their own.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris Beth Arnold 2011
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While the soon-to-be family live the posh Parisian high-life of five-star palace hotels and swanky restaurants, Gil is dreaming of writing the great American novel like his heroes in the Lost Generation who made Paris their own.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Other Side of Midnight in Paris Beth Arnold 2011
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So to act like people are out there living the high-life, just sitting around having fun getting paid to do nothing is ridiculous and shows just how out of touch this guy really is.
Wonk Room » CNBC: Unemployment Benefits Are A ‘Fraud,’ We’re ‘Paying People Not To Work’ 2009
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Via Curbed LA: We see it as Old Hollywood glamor now, but when it was made in 1951 for Hollywood screenwriter Manuel Seff, architect Kenneth Lind spruced up post-war modern design with "added exuberance and flourish" to combine the needs of a single-family residency with "high-life entertainment" and swinging parties.
Manuel Seff Residence (1951) Designed by Kenneth Lind AIA Huffington Post 2010
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