Xanadu

Example Sentences

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Is “Horizon” the capstone achievement of Costner’s career or his cowboy Xanadu?

From Los Angeles Times

I mention the late director of 1980’s “Heaven’s Gate” because there already is a cowboy Xanadu, one still struggling to graduate beyond its status as a famous Hollywood bomb and film maudit.

From Los Angeles Times

At least two of those set decorators and another prop house owner credited Meyer — a 75-year-old former set decorator whose credits include the 1980 Olivia Newton-John musical “Xanadu” and the 1970s detective series “Switch” — with inventing the fake book.

From Los Angeles Times

And when the karaoke rolls around, Cubarrubia and Morales break out dancing as they sing Olivia Newton-John’s “Xanadu.”

From Los Angeles Times

Trump bought the historic 126-room Palm Beach mansion and estate of General Foods heiress and executive Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1985 after putting about $2,800 down in cash, borrowing the rest of the bargain $7 million purchase price for what was then considered a distressed property, said novelist and historian Les Standiford, author of “Palm Beach, Mar-a-Lago and the Rise of America’s Xanadu.”

From Seattle Times