Word: london
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...Santa Gertrudis cattle. He and Nellie have three children and seven grandchildren.* They are avid antique collectors, and their home, furnished partly from their travels and partly from carefully following estate auctions, contains screens from Bah', Persian carpets, eleven hand-carved doors, a marble dining room floor from a London mansion, plus a wide collection of Southwestern American...
...fairy tales. Growing up in the north of England, Alan Price heard about the Jarrow March. The government shut down the shipbuilding yards, even blew up construction cranes. The workers were starving; their children had rickets. The people of Jarrow staged a hunger march, walked the 280 miles to London to confront a government that refused to see them. Some 30 years later, Price wrote a song for them. It was rilled with pride, a particular kind of chin-out toughness set to an easy melody fit for a pub choir, and it had a memorable chorus: "And if they...
Buckle, formerly the dance critic of the Sunday Times of London, might have speculated more about the period and the art and placed Diaghilev's achievement in perspective. But if analysis is missing, the man transcends his interpreter. For Diaghilev's life was his work, and that has continued. His followers have founded many of the world's leading dance companies, including London's Royal Ballet and the New York City Ballet. It is a suitable legacy for the impresario who. with one daring jeté after another, brought the East to the West...
DIVORCED. Peter OToole, 47, Irish actor who played the title roles in Lawrence of Arabia and Goodbye, Mr. Chips; and Sian Phillips, 46, Welsh actress who starred in television's I, Claudius; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in London...
Aicient Athens had its bards. Medieval France had its jongleurs; Elizabethan London, its ballad singers and costermongers. Today, U.S. cities have their street musicians: modern minstrels who weave their fragile melodies over the pedal point of trucks and subways, amid a chorus of honking horns and an obbligato of blaring transistor radios...