Word: 1880s
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...1880s The transits of Venus in these decades were media events, featured in popular articles all over the world. The U.S. Naval Observatory alone sent out several expeditions, left. By then, it was easy to figure out longitude and latitude, and good telescopes were available. But it was still impossible to get precise timing measurements because just before Venus leaves the sun's disk, an optical illusion makes the planet seem to ooze toward the edge...
...Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte,” composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s Pulitzer-prize winning musical, featuring a book written by James Lapine, is about a whole lot more, particularly love and how you get it. Act One takes place in the 1880s and Act Two takes place in the 1980s. Through May 8 $12 Regular, Students (2 per I.D.) $8, Seniors: $8, Groups of 10 or more $7. Loeb Main Stage, Cambridge...
...colonial extravaganza that was one of the catalysts for his Tahitian wanderlust. The piece will return home when the show moves to Boston in February. Vuillard is the most comprehensive exhibit ever dedicated to the artist, with 230 paintings, drawings, photographs and theatrical posters produced between the late 1880s and the 1930s. The young artist's red-orange beard provides a perfect Nabi foil in the Octagonal Self-Portrait that opens the show, paired with shocking yellow hair to frame his half-shadowed face. The small Elegant Woman is a masterful bit of minimalism - a column of black skirt...
Even on the newly hipped-up, post-Louis Rukeyser PBS, "reality series" means something different. Instead of thongs, you get bonnets. But the six-part Frontier House (check local listings), which sends three real-life families to lead the hardscrabble life of 1880s Montana pioneers, is not unlike Survivor. On both, the players slaughter pigs--and come close to slaughtering one another as well...
During a mid-1880s visit to Shamian, the Shaoguan-based Wesleyan missionary John Turner described "a beautiful island, fronted with lawns and flower gardens, with the foreign consular and merchants' houses standing behind them, on either side of an avenue of banyan trees." That quaint scene greets today's visitors, too, thanks largely to late-'90s restoration, a combination of government and private initiatives. All of the old buildings now bear plaques describing their history, which makes a walking tour of the 3-sq-km island both possible and pleasant...