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...layered cut, brushed off the face and neater but more stylized than the shag that was popularized by Jane Fonda in the early 1970s, it looks basically like a soft wedge graduated to the nape of the neck. Her hairdresser, Kevin Shanley, 25, who works in a South Kensington salon prophetically named Headlines Hair and Beauty Salon, confirms rumors that her locks are touched up with "a little blond highlighting" (or Di-lighting). Hairdressers throughout Britain are being besieged by young women who, as they say, demand a Di job. American hairdressers say they have not had a great many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Shy Di Makes a Daring Debut | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...Referring to his long hair, Robert Engelmann told his family in Hurst, Texas: "You probably don't recognize me. After 400 or so days, I guess we can hang on a little longer, hopefully not too much longer." Fighting back tears, Bruce German of Kensington, Md., addressed his "dear wife Marge" and said, "Since I can't be there in person, I'd like to think I'm there in spirit." Phillip Ward of Culpeper, Va., had some fatherly advice for his son Scott: "Continue the good work in school and help your mother around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages: She Wore A Yellow Ribbon | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...assault was indeed a measure of last resort, undertaken after attempts to negotiate the release of the hostages had failed repeatedly. The gunmen who had seized the embassy at Princes Gate, in the fashionable Kensington district of London, were bitterly opposed to the regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. They had demanded the release of 91 Iranian Arab political prisoners who were being held in Iran, as well as some form of autonomy for the largely Arabic-speaking province of Khuzistan. During the early days of the embassy siege, the terrorists treated their prisoners reason ably well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: A Daring Rescue at Princes Gate | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

Eloise Fox Kensington, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 14, 1980 | 1/14/1980 | See Source »

...tidy example is the backyard of William Thackeray's great-granddaughter, Belinda Norman-Butler, in London's Kensington section. It is a cozy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: A Nation of Gardeners | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

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