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MARRIED. Simon Le Bon, 27, lead singer of the rock group Duran Duran and aspiring sailboat racer, who almost died last summer when his 77-ft. sloop capsized during a race; and Yasmin Parvaneh, 21, half-Iranian British model; in Oxford, England...
...sufficient number of decades, knighthoods. Samson's boss Dicky Cruyer is a particularly loathsome species of well-connected idler, and Deighton takes great pleasure in demonstrating this. " 'Let me tell you something, Bernard,' said Dicky, leaning well back in the soft leather seat and adopting the manner of an Oxford don explaining the law of gravity to a delivery boy . . . 'It could get messy; people with a history of bad decisions are going to be axed very smartly.' Dicky smiled. He could afford to smile; Dicky had never made a decision in his life. Whenever something decisive was about...
...long list of awards and honorary posts, including a term as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. It is not hard to imagine his audiences of college students and Anglophiles treating him as lesser nobility, a surviving link to the Bloomsbury group of Virginia Woolf and the Oxford gang of W.H. Auden, Cecil Day Lewis, Louis MacNeice and Spender himself...
Snappily attired in a dark blue oxford suit, a blue-and white bow tie and a black Borsalino, Vladimir Horowitz sits in a private VIP airport lounge, waiting to board his flight to Washington. His wife Wanda is wearing a new silk dress and a mink coat for the occasion. "It will be nice to meet Nancy Reagan," says Arturo Toscanini's daughter. "Normally, I don't like official bureaucratic functions. My father told me to avoid anything that involves government officials. But since we are going to Russia, I will make this exception...
Bhutto explained her latest move as an attempt to avoid the "bloodshed and chaos [that might] lead to a takeover by another general." Opponents were quick to blame it all on Bhutto herself. A strong-willed aristocrat who was educated at Harvard and Oxford, she has had difficulty in unifying her father's Pakistan People's Party. She is wary of its older leaders, and has replaced many of them with younger politicians. Charges Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 55, who was forced out of his party post and later formed an opposition group of his own: "Bhutto's retreat...