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...Cornelia Cochrane Churchill Guest, 19, the youngest child of a socially prominent family, grew up on Long Island and in Palm Beach and New York City. She spent 1982 as a debutante, and all year long the New York gossip journalists mentioned her in print, often dusting off a quaint epithet: deb of the year. "I don't get tired of it," she says, having finished her eggs and her Tab and three more cigarettes cadged from a waiter. "I'm honored. It's fun. It's wonderful. I'm having a wonderful year...
...long as anyone can remember, the city of Cambridge this month assembled a quaint wooden Nativity scene on the Brattle Square traffic island. Though most unassuming, the tiny plastic animals, pilgrim kings and baby Jesus violate the same constitutional principle raised when Grendel's had its day before the high court...
...news, however, threatened the quaint tranquillity this summer. Although this tale apparently will have a happy ending, it could easily have had disastrous effects...
...very uncertainty that has led Interior policymakers to err on the side of preservation and caution. Because Watt's radical course carries with it the risk of irrevocability-lands cannot be unsold, offshore oil wells undrilled nor sullied wilderness made virginal again-his department is no longer a quaint political backwater. For better or worse, Watt's Interior stewardship may be the century's most significant. Among his controversial moves...
Considering the Cyclopean onslaught of photographers the royal family must endure, it is rather a quaint sight to catch them squinting into the lens themselves. Like a good sportsman's wife, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, was front and center to watch Prince Philip, 60, in the three-day Royal Windsor Horse Show's carriage-driving contest. The prince, who started racing coaches at 50 after he gave up polo, has been a runner-up four times in the past, but this year he reined supreme. Presented the first-place trophy by his No. 1 fan, Philip smiled...