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...imminent split-up were rife. The split was headed off only, acquaintances insist, because the Queen intervened and urged Margaret and Tony to go their own ways as discreetly as possible. Friends found that entertaining the two, when they did get together, could be painful. Margaret had become especially fond of gin-and-tonics. She would at times airily ignore Tony. When he invited guests to Kensington Palace, she would breeze through the room, stopping long enough only to cast a chill on the festivities. To many Britons who had learned to love the impish princess in her younger days...
Scott says he is still fond of France, but living abroad "makes you more conscious of being an American. Anyone who says it does not is full of horseshit...
...robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco and declared herself a revolutionary ("I have chosen to stay and fight"). After studying S.L.A. tapes and writings, Singer decided that these particular messages were probably read by Patty from scripts prepared by Angela Atwood, an S.L.A. ideologue fond of bombast and complex phrasing, who was killed in the fiery Los Angeles Shootout...
...days, tutors are fond of remembering, seniors also wrote theses and in great numbers--back, that is, before the counter-culture, Kissinger and the permanent recession. But those theses, we are told, were different they were generally thought of as broad, even speculative essays on a major problem within a field. Students were supposed to look back on their field and direct their analytical or synthetic juggernauts at a problem of major importance. Seniors are remembered writing on Shakespeare or Milton rather than on bad novels by obscure madmen; they reflected on the Civil War or the New Deal instead...
...regardless of Winig's endorsement, the doctors downstairs don't encourage women to ask for IUDs, especially if the woman has not had childbirth. "I'm not very fond of the IUD," says Blevins. "I don't think women tolerate their IUDs very well. I could learn to put them...