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...DIED. PATRICK LICHFIELD, 66, society photographer and a cousin of Queen Elizabeth II; of a stroke; in Oxford, England. After inheriting a title he never used, the 5th Earl of Lichfield quit the army in 1962 for a career as a fashion photographer during London's "Swinging Sixties." Lichfield's glossy lifestyle, high-profile romantic liaisons and 1986 divorce never cost him the loyalty of the Royal Family, which employed him to take many official portraits...
...dope Cassell's Dictionary of Slang is dropped on Nov. 17. Five days later hail the buttery New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English. Flummoxed? Unless you happen to be a British teenager, it will take you a brow-furrowing few seconds to translate that into the Queen's English. If you want some help, click here or holler for your kids. Many teens in the U.K. have a fluent command of Blinglish, a melding of West Indian and English street slang, enriched by borrowings from black urban America and Grime, a form of London...
...thus, Felipe's eldest sister Elena would follow their father Juan Carlos on the throne. Today, Spanish law allows sex changes - and some of the country's 17 autonomous regions perform them on the public health service - but little Leonor won't require the surgeon's knife to become Queen after her Dad. Just the lawyer's pen. The Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero wants to erase the sexism from Article 57 (to apply post-Felipe), the conservative opposition Popular Party (PP) won't object, and polls show that - republicans apart - most Spaniards...
Thomas Patrick John Anson--officially, Lord Lichfield--came to one photographic specialty by birth and the other by disposition. As Queen Elizabeth II's cousin, he had access to royalty, famously using a referee's whistle to organize group shots at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Di. And as a world-class bon vivant, he became a host and chronicler of swinging London: when he lensed one of Mick Jagger's nuptials, he doubled as best man. Of the '60s, he once said, "We did behave quite badly." And he never claimed great artistry. But he made full...
...will feature two dance floors—one for club jams, and another for guilty pleasures. A guilty pleasure, said Anne T. Hilby ’06, is “anything that you laugh at before admitting that you like it” (think Dancing Queen). Cheesy music isn’t the only indulgence Guilty promises. And, adds Hilby, “there’s chocolate...