Word: london
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BERT RIGBY, YOU'RE A FOOL. Robert Lindsay (the London-Broadway star of Me and My Girl) plays the lead in Carl Reiner's funny fable about an English coal miner's search for celebrity. Anne Bancroft is glorious as a randy Hollywood princess whom Lindsay meets on the potholed road to stardom...
MOZART AND SCHNABEL, VOLS. 1-4 (Arabesque). The great Artur Schnabel in memorable performances of Mozart piano concertos and solo music, recorded in London between...
That prospect helped jolt the Europeans into moving on the CFC issue. And at a London conference on the ozone issue this week, E.C. ministers will try to persuade other nations to adopt the CFC ban. High on the lobbying list: developing countries, such as India and China, that are just starting to mass- produce refrigerators and other CFC-using products...
Shopping for socks used to mean dragging one's threadbare feet to the most obscure corner of the department store. No more: socks have come to the storefront. From London to New York City to Los Angeles, hundreds of quick- stop sock shops are sprouting up all over, purveying hip leg wear to a crowd of hurried shoppers. The sock emporiums typically offer attentive service and an eccentric inventory of hose adorned with happy faces, world maps, tie-dyed patterns, jack-o'-lanterns and even Scottie-dog appliques...
...pioneer of stockings-on-the-run is an ex-secretary in London named Sophie Mirman, who opened her first Sock Shop in 1983 at the busy Knightsbridge Underground station. Her philosophy: "Socks should be as easy to buy as a newspaper." Since then her Sock Shop chain has expanded to 118 outlets in Britain, France, Belgium and the U.S. Her most famous customer: Princess Diana...