Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that aircraft. Trivia, you say? But there was nothing trivial about the real-life fulfillment of what seemed to be quixotic fantasy last week in Northern Africa. In a 180-ft.-high balloon, a silvery dare in the air, two adventurers--Swiss psychiatrist Bertrand Piccard, 41, and British balloon instructor Brian Jones, 51--completed their tour of the world in 20 days. The stakes were different (a purse of $1 million, courtesy of Anheuser-Busch, as opposed to 20,000[pounds] in Verne), but their intent was the same. They sought to prove a point--to themselves and the world...
...March 7 Piccard and Jones heard of a misfortune--and it was good news for their quest. On that day their competitors, the British team of Andy Elson and Colin Prescot, ditched over the Pacific Ocean. After setting an endurance record of 17 days, 18 hrs., 25 min. aloft, the duo, in the Cable & Wireless balloon, was knocked out by what amounted to a one-two punch. First, peeved that Branson's December flight had infringed upon its airspace, China denied entry to his countrymen, forcing them to follow a more convoluted route. And then, while traveling over Thailand, Elson...
...OCCUPATION: waifish British supermodel BEST PUNCH: Former Johnny Depp squeeze reportedly called Schiffer's engagement to magician David Copperfield "phony and tasteless," suggesting they were really in love with each other's fame...
Many students complain about the inconvenient location of Random British University House, but it's really not so far away, and the airline shuttles run all the time. Washington, D.C. House has an overly active House Committee (or several) and a huge House Formal every four years in January, but the upperclass people there are really backbiting and gossipy, and lots of folks transfer out. Once in a while, of course, a senior will decide to move "off-campus," abandoning the Houses altogether to trek through the Gobi Desert or teach English to Bolivian squirrels. Off-campus life...
...someone who believes that the relationship narrative is central to much of great literature, then you, gentle reader, are suddenly spoiled for choice. In the unhappy-families category, autobiographical division, British novelist and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi bares all about his decision to leave his partner in the fictional Intimacy (Scribner; 118 pages; $16), while New York City journalist John Taylor skips the novelizing but tells a strikingly similar story in Falling: The Story of One Marriage (Random House; 225 pages...