Word: browsings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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She came into the land of harsh, brooding mountains and the eternal, green-blue Irish Sea, a princess and stranger. But she charmed the countrymen thoroughly and soon they welcomed her as their princess and friend. The trip to Wales last week by Prince Charles, 32, and Diana, Princess of...
In the hubbub of Brighton's Old Ship Hotel, the rough-hewn intellectual with the craggy brows celebrated his victory with a tulip of champagne followed by a pint of beer. For Denis Healey, there was symbolism as well as pleasure in the occasion-a signal that he was...
FROM LOOKING at the pictures, you could see it in his eyes. Flashbulbs might explode in front of his chiseled face, but the light they cast wasn't nearly as bright as the curious beams that burned beneath his brows. He possessed a lambent, almost impatient genius, one that illuminated...
What is seen as clumsiness on the fast track of Manhattan is likely to be regarded in Europe as the freshness and innocence of an infant civilization and in Japan as exoticism. Editors and advertisers in both places are delighted. As Henry James and others have observed, American female innocence...
But you can always pick out the little boys and girls who play in junior tennis tournaments, the rascals with the headbands scrunched down over furrowed little brows. Sullen looks, knee braces and mumbles about "bum draws." These kids accept intense jealousy, incessant selfdoubt and occasional deceit as the basis...