Word: kensington
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Surrounded by sacred cows, O'Rourke lives on a diet of hamburger. He considers it bad form to criticize one society when, with very little effort, two can be skewered: "The same polite behavior that makes you a welcome guest in the drawing rooms of Kensington is equally appropriate among the Mud People of the fierce Orokaiva tribe of Papua New Guinea -- if you have a gun." Closer to home, he examines every appalling aspect of modern life. Under the heading of "Rebuffs," he notes that "at one time the 'cut direct' was delivered by looking right at a person...
Developers are rapidly buying up the buildingsthat house the strip clubs and peepshows andshutting them down, says Paul L. Rosenberg '73, apartner in the Kensington Investment Company,which plans to convert existing buildings intoapartments, shops and offices...
...FROM KENSINGTON by Muriel Spark (Houghton Mifflin; $17.95). A beguiling widow's fictional progress over two familiar Spark terrains: the London publishing world and the battleground between innocence and corruption...
...finals of Wimbledon. Now I've won Wimbledon too. It's quite fun actually." Asked if it might change him, he responded, "It hasn't yet." (At least half an hour had gone by.) In other words, he would be maintaining his English residence in Chelsea? "No, Kensington." And not be moving to Monte Carlo, nearer the night life and farther from the taxmen? "It's not me." As a matter of fact, Edberg describes his fundamental hope as the ability to continue patronizing a particular pizza parlor in anonymity...
...students who have navigated these reefs and gained acceptance to elite schools find themselves in a very pleasant harbor. Or three, or four. "My interviewer at Princeton is so nice to me now," says Donna Katz, of Kensington, Md., who was accepted at five top schools. "He really wasn't when he first interviewed...