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Article: The Art and Anger of Walter Annenberg; Ambassador and Friend to the Famous, Finding Honor Through His Collection
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- The Washington Post
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- May 23, 1989
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If you drive east from Los Angeles until the traffic thins, the
mountains rise around you and the landscape turns to sand, if you
find your way to Bob Hope Drive, turn right on Frank Sinatra and are
cleared by the armed guards, it will surround you all at once.
Nothing quite prepares you for the world that has been conjured here
by ambassador Walter Annenberg.
Pass the steel gate, and like a stage designer's trick, the
sun-baked browns and grays, the dustiness and heat, disappear
completely. Here the land is green as Oz. Cormorants and egrets
flash beside the ponds. The 32,000-square-foot house, wrapped by his
private golf course, is vast and cool and rich. Sunnylands, he calls
it. Even ...