Word: annabell
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...overcast. Sports pages throughout the British Isles have been strewn with black crepe. England's footballers were jobbed in the World Cup at the hand of Maradona; the cricket team was embarrassed by India; Irish Featherweight Barry McGuigan was flattened by a substitute from Texas. At Wimbledon, Best Brits Annabel Croft and John Lloyd were sacked straightaway, and here Lloyd was quitting in a manner that seemed to cinch the national sense of failure...
...thousand word lashing that doesn't just sting for the regulation seventy-two hours but rankles all his life. Zuckerman now had his: to reassure in his quotable storehouse till he died, the unkindest review of all, embedded indelibly (and just about as useful) as "Abou Ben Adhem" and "Annabel Lee," the first two poems he'd had to memorize for a high-school English class...
...good book also pops up in Class Reunion, by Rona Jaffe '51, a 1979 novel that follows four women from their years at Radcliffe in the 50s to their 20th reunion. The most adventurous of the quartet is Annabel, who goes on a freshman year date with a young man named Richard, by reputation the most experienced member of the Harvard freshman class...
...before long, well-trained scholars that they are, Annabel and Richard have embarked on new pathways of scientific inquiry...
BORN. To Lady Annabel Goldsmith, 46, London socialite, and Sir James (Jimmy) Goldsmith, 47, British food and publishing magnate: a son, their third child (the couple had a son and daughter before they were married in 1978, and each has three children by previous marriages); in London. Name: Benjamin James...