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...Adare (more will have to wait for next year's shearing). There are also brilliantly beautiful Donegal rugs and carpets in hand-knotted modern and traditional designs, chandeliers of Waterford glass, and 40 paintings by contemporary Irish painters. There is a profusion of Irish linen, of course, and Georgian antiques and contemporary pottery. The store has even inspired the Irish to turn out a stunning new line of children's clothes...
...Rachman had enough money to start dealing in better-class apartments, hotels and office buildings. He married Audrey O'Donnell, a pretty Lancashire girl who had served as an officer in his multiple corporations, and moved into a mock-Georgian mansion just off Hampstead Heath's Millionaires' Row. The garage was large enough to house their six cars...
...infidelity; in the early 18th century, an Archbishop of York maintained a harem at his palace. The 18th century Christine Keeler was a Miss Chudleigh, who had been the mistress of three peers when George II spotted her at a costume ball, cunningly disguised in a transparent gown. Her Georgian era came between two noble marriages (one bigamous). In the 18th century phrase, borrowed from nautical terminology, Miss Chudleigh had "bottom," or what it takes...
Occasionally splitting up to cover more ground, the Economist team ranged from Leningrad and the Georgian capital of Tiflis (where they found just two statues of Favorite Son Joe Stalin) to Armenia. Some of the events on their itinerary were less than enlightening. In a Tashkent opera house, the six sat yawning through a two-hour program of eulogies for an obscure poet, but managed to salvage a guffaw when a Canadian Communist named Tim Buck stood up to describe how the local hero-who wrote in Uzbek -had given Buck's fellow Canadians "great inspiration fighting imperialists...
...trying to meet the physical needs of the College, the Program has to some measure furnished new standards for its intellectual life. For any attempt to preserve relative standards now requires a raising of standards. This the Program has done.Piercing the Georgian skyline along the Charles are the twin towers of Leverett Towers, one of two new Houses constructed with Program funds. Estimated cost of the building amounted to more than...