Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seat in Parliament, cranked out nine undistinguished books, and wrote numerous newspaper columns in which he vented his wrath on Americans, British politicians and the Fleet Street press lords. "I'm a naughty tease," he explained. "I like to attack rich and powerful people." The London Observer mused that he was "dangerously over-inflated with hot air, bursting with ruderies, strained around the seams, self-sealing against the tin-tacks of opposition and criticism...
...accident" and has frequently been arrested for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. His eldest sister Diana, who was married for 25 years to onetime Tory Defense Secretary Duncan Sandys, committed suicide in 1963-a death that stunned Britain, especially since she was active at the time in a London group known as Samaritans, a sort of suicide-rescue corps that attempted to head off suicides before they happened...
...secret was so intimate that she confided it to none but the London Daily Mail, the London Daily Sketch and their 3,000,000 readers. After four years of wedlock, Swedish Starlet Britt Eklund, 25, was parting with Comedian Peter Sellers, 42. The frantic pace of traveling with Peter was what did it, she said. "It might sound fabulous, but you can't imagine how exhausting it is transporting a baby, a nanny and all your possessions all over the world. I always travel with my tape recorder, radio, camera, ten framed pictures of my family, my very...
...want my paintings to come out of color and not drawing. I just roll out the canvas and begin and let it grow." Lately, Olitski has been rolling out a lot of canvas. He is preparing for three one-man shows, to be held this summer and fall in London, Los Angeles and New York City. In addition, his work will be shown later this month at West Germany's prestigious Dokumenta, and he can hardly meet the demand from private buyers, who willingly pay from $4,000 to $12,000 for a painting. Among today...
Soon Vesta has made the poet "normal" and "sane" by making him no poet at all. Brainwashed into a wholly new identity, Enderby emerges as Piggy Hogg, an inarticulate London bartender and retread "useful citizen"-the welfare state's version of death and transfiguration...