Word: london
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...makes no sense to form political decisions based on this," Malcolm said. "If so, the English would have to give London back to the Welsh...
DIED. DIRK BOGARDE, 78, British actor who transcended matinee-idol looks with darkly serious roles; in London. He starred in A Tale of Two Cities (1958) and Hollywood films but will be best remembered for Victim (1961), a tale of homosexual blackmail, and his acclaimed performance in the film version of Death in Venice...
...week the woman who in 1992 tore up a picture of the Pope on Saturday Night Live became the first female priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, a Roman Catholic splinter group. Days before the ordination in Lourdes, France, O'Connor, a twice-married mother of two, told the London newspaper the Mirror that she would like to get hitched again, but will wait "at least six months" before sleeping with her intended. Apparently the woman now known as Mother Bernadette Mary O'Connor also didn't know that priestly marriage and sex are frowned on by Catholics as well...
This is vintage Greer, profane and highly quotable. Says Knopf president Sonny Mehta, who was at Cambridge with Greer in the 1960s and who, over lunch in London's Soho, encouraged her to write The Female Eunuch: "Germaine is a force." Her skill as a quick-change polemicist is what gives The Whole Woman its flashes of originality: she takes issues on which most progressive women thought they had positions and sets a standard all her own. You think advances in reproductive technology have been good for women? Well, writes Greer (who underwent failed fertility treatments), "I think it rather...
...Born Nov. 30 in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, England 1911-15, 1939-40 First Lord of the Admiralty 1940-45, 1951-55 Prime Minister of Britain 1964 Retires 1965 Dies in London...