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...interview in the Paris Review, Albee credits the title to a distinctly literary graffito inscribed in soap on the mirror of a Greenwich Village bar. He wrote to Leonard Woolf, the husband of the dead novelist, who gave him permission...
Etzioni said he based his analysis on interviews with 215 single persons in Greenwich Village and 50 couples at Rutgers University who had lived together and decided to get married...
DeNiro grew up on the streets of Manhattan's Greenwich Village. His parents, both artists, were separated when he was two. At ten, he briefly attended Saturday acting classes at New York's New School but soon turned to "hanging around" in flashy silk suits...
...When 1975 was rung in last week at Britain's old Royal Greenwich Observatory, which is located on the meridian where the earth's time zones begin, it arrived precisely one second late. For official timekeepers everywhere, including the National Bureau of Standards in the U.S., the delay was significant. The earth's rotation (which forms the basis of time units-hours, minutes, seconds) is gradually slowing down-largely because of tidal friction. For that reason, the timekeepers decided a few years ago to make an occasional correction by inserting a so-called leap second. In that...
...regular job somewhere in the U.S., presumably under an assumed identity. She now faces up to five years in prison on the conspiracy charge, an other five for fleeing. Her return raised speculation about whether such other young women radicals as Kathy Boudin, who fled a bombed-out Greenwich Village town house in 1970, and Patricia Swinton, charged as a co-conspirator with Alpert but never found by police, may also come in out of the cold. A more intriguing question was whether Heiress Patricia Hearst is either willing or able to escape her radical abductors and re-embrace...