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...made the facility difficult to protect. For all that, American diplomats will likely turn up their noses at the announcement. The move means trading in the tony surroundings of Mayfair - with its bespoke tailors, high-end jewelers and Michelin-starred restaurants - for a gritty stretch of road between Battersea and Vauxhall, known for, among other things, its bus station, a large supermarket and one of London's busiest gay saunas. The new location will, however, place the embassy closer to the British parliament at Westminster, and is within walking distance from the headquarters of MI6, Britain's secret intelligence service...
FREE SAMPLE "At the inquest, a cabman told the coroner that he had seen a gentleman racing, hatless, across Battersea Bridge, from which, about half-way over, he had vaulted into the river. The tide was running strongly, and by the time the witness had reached the edge of the embankment, there was nothing to be seen...
Laing has also built several wired homes in the Battersea area of London, complete with "intelligent" heating and lighting, which can be controlled from a mobile phone. I speak with a 39-year-old venture capitalist who bought one of the homes four months ago. "We've been told the house can do all sorts of things, but we're still learning how to use the different features," he says. "We're not very technology-savvy. Maybe our son will know how to use all this stuff." It will be a while before I can interview...
...most beautiful of his Thames nocturnes of the 1870s, depicting Old Battersea Bridge in a luminous blue twilight, appearance is sliding off into illegibility under the aegis of Japanese prints; Hokusai, one of Whistler's favorite artists, had done a similar scene of fireworks at night behind a tall wooden bridge. The real Battersea Bridge was too stumpy for Whistler, so he made it into a tall Orientalized dream, with the falling rocket fire spangling the dusk like gold flakes on Japanese maki-e enamel. If he could choose where he was born, he could certainly decide what country...
Inevitably, the charity tennis event at London's Battersea Park was heralded as a "love doubles" match, even though mixed doubles are notoriously taxing on marriages and other loving relationships. John Lloyd and his more famous wife Chris Evert Lloyd were paired against Bjorn Borg and Fiancee Mariana Simionescu, who plan to be married in July. Between hugs, pats, kisses and giggles, the foursome played reasonably serious tennis, with Chris and John winning, 6-4, 6-3. For that they were awarded $93,000, while the losers won $60,500. Charity got $35,000, leading some to wonder...