Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book's target audience, Edwards feels strongly ambivalent: "You want to be courted, but you're raised to be independent. The book really pulls you in opposite directions." Edwards, a staff writer who has been with TIME since 1993, takes issue with the evidence Shalit uses to recommend 19th century manners to the modern professional woman...
According to Buell, two of the appointees--18th-century literature authority Lynn M. Festa and 19th-century British literature and romantic poetry specialist Ann Rowland--have expressed their interest in gender studies and may help take up some of the slack left by Pellegrini's departure...
...died in a madhouse. Whatever his affliction may have been, it left no interpretable mark on his work. Nothing is known about his personality, and it doesn't matter. And that's about it, except for the fact that his critical fortunes rose steeply in the 19th century--and the much odder fact that until now, no museum in or out of Holland has ever bothered to mount a show of his work, even though his pictures have been eagerly sought by collectors the world over...
...contrast to the concerto, a "quirky interpretation," or at least some risk taking was just what Stravinksy's Le Sacre needed. Unfortunately as noted by one fellow concert-goer, "It was played too much like Debussy." That is to say that there was too much late 19th century impressionism and not enough Igor Stravinsky. It's not the type of music that you walk down the Champs-Elysees listening to, which should be evident from the subtitle of the piece, "pictures from Pagan Russia...
...cubicle for two full weeks. Below him, a billboard blares the words "WORK SUCKS." Appearing live on the Web, Office Guy's routine includes taking phone calls and writing e-mail responses to those who share the sentiment of his billboard. He refuses to come down until Friday the 19th...