When Ted and Julia faced off with the IRS in Tax Court, the question was by how much the value of the lake house exceeded the demolition costs.
Yettaw, 53, a former military serviceman from Falcon, Missouri, was sentenced last week for a May 3 incident when he swam across a lake to the house of Suu Kyi and stayed, uninvited, for two days.
But the IRS was steamed by this, claiming the lake house was income.
Admittedly, the geek factor in Wordplay is every bit as high as the sap factor is in The Lake House.
So if you're willing to indulge a sappiness factor that's off-the-charts, and you don't mind movies that just sort of tread water, The Lake House may be your kind of time-waster.
The Lake House, based on a Korean picture and directed by an Argentinean, features supporting players with a variety of intriguing accents, and it's tempting to say that something's getting lost in translation, except that we are, after all, in the Twilight Zone here, and all those different influences are more interesting than the leads are.
The house is on a lake in central Mississippi near the backwater-flooded Yazoo River.
One night, he and Suzie went out together to a party at the house of some friends, beside the lake in one of the old city parks.
In the winter, a former Olympic skater with a house in the neighborhood clears the lake for skating.
In 1919, at the age of 72, Bell set a marine speed record of 70.86mph on the Bras d'Or Lakes with his HD-4 hydrofoil, a replica of which resides, along with many of his personal artifacts, in the museum of the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site of Canada, across the lake from his house.
First, head to the Lake District's Puzzling Place in the town of Keswick, a house of illusion that is devoted to brain teasers.
Unlike many of the other, far more sumptuous homes that have sprouted up around it, our lake house isn't winterized and hasn't really changed since the late 1950s.
He is obsessed with aperiodic tile patterns. (Imagine a floor tiled in a pattern that never repeats.) When Myhrvold built his own house, on the shores of Lake Washington, outside Seattle a vast, silvery hypermodernist structure described by his wife as the place in the sci-fi movie where the aliens live he embedded some sixty aperiodic patterns in the walls, floors, and ceilings.
Proctor sometimes visits the Rivers family at their weekend lake house.
Steppingstones carved from the natural stone base of the lake lead to two concrete gazebos, which flank the seven-bedroom, seven-bathroom house.
Yettaw testified that four or five policemen saw him swimming across the lake to reach Suu Kyi's house.
Yettaw also testified that four or five policemen saw him swimming across the lake to reach Suu Kyi's house.
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While the comedy was shot in California, it made liberal use of props from Scranton and referenced plenty of real-life landmarks, from Cooper's Seafood House and Poor Richard's pub to Lake Wallenpaupack and the Lackawanna County Coal Mine Tour.
Louis, recently signed a contract to buy a three-bedroom house with a boat dock and a swimming platform on the shore of Lake of the Ozarks, a Missouri vacation spot.
The Tax Court ultimately ruled that Ted and Julia failed to prove their lake house had any value beyond demolition cost.
This past Fourth of July involved a neighborhood party that moved from house to house, ending with everyone watching the town's fireworks while swimming in the lake.
Fay has sentimental feelings towards the area since he grew up in Findlay, Ohio and his parents have a lake house in Jackson, Michigan.
"We also call for the release of more than 2, 000 political prisoners, including the American John Yettaw, " who swam, uninvited, across a lake to Suu Kyi's residence earlier this year, prompting the charge she had violated her house arrest.
The Burmese arrested Yettaw - a reportedly mentally unstable Vietnam veteran - after he swam across a lake in Rangoon to visit democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, thereby violating the terms of the house arrest to which the latter has been subjected for over 14 years.
In 2004 the Breauxs were driving back and forth to Lake Tahoe, where they had an old vacation house and where Mr. Breaux's company was building two houses for the daughters of a previous client.
Neighbors who were closer to Patty than the Paulsens reported that Miss Bianca had left her little mouse house, on a minor lake near Grand Rapids, exclusively to Walter and not to his two brothers.
Just where to look for the house and grounds (and whether you're also looking for that all important lake, of course) depends which adaptation you favor: The 1995 TV version was filmed at Lyme Park in Cheshire (exterior scenes), and Sudbury Hall in Derbyshire (interior scenes).
Varnedo says he's actually glad his house fell victim to the 190-per-hour wind gusts and not the flooding from the lake that devastated much of the city.
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