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...Queen will cruise from La Paz to San Diego aboard her yacht. H.M.Y. Britannia is nothing less than a floating palace. At 412 ft. long, it is half the length of the QE2. It has the chintz-covered drawing room of a grand country house, a swimming pool, ballroom, chapel, theater and elegantly appointed bedroom suites-the Queen's with rosebud curtains, the Prince's in a more austere navy style. This ship is not for the frugal: it burns a ton of oil every seven miles. The ship's 26 officers and 254 crewmen all give...
...living quarters feature the English country charm of the main drawing room, with its off-white walls, needlepoint rugs, and chairs covered in floral chintz. Scattered about are such remnants of the British Empire as a golden urn commemorating Nelson's victory at Trafalgar and a set of shark's teeth from the Solomon Islands. Folding doors separate the main drawing room from a comfortable anteroom, creating an open space about the length of a bowling alley...
...money. The women, in particular, share a gilded past as "the beautiful daughters of the nervous well-to-do." One remembers: "We were comfortable wherever we went, since anywhere was just like home: the same silk curtains, good oil paintings in heavy gold frames, big pantries and good food, chintz sofas, colored cooks and walnut coffee tables . . ." The girls grow out of these comfortable surroundings and into equally comfortable jobs. They become illustrators or work in bookstores or publishing houses. The men they meet and sometimes marry tend to be solid professional types and good providers...
...within 50 years of his death in 1896, the man's reputation had shrunk to a few yards of chintz and flowered wallpaper. This forceful and articulate genius had receded into a green limbo where Pre-Raphaelite ghosts lisped harmlessly to one another. He was posthumously seen as a backward-looking fabulist, a quaint Victorian period piece. The visions of a great radical socialist were diminished and finally lost. Yet in life they absorbed his greatest energies. "There is no salvation for the unemployed," he wrote in 1887, "but in the general combination of the workers for the freedom...
...years, women who write fiction have been saddled with either accepting or trying to deny "the bright, controlled subjectivity of a feminine prose manner"--all the words and criticisms that have relegated the works of both Jane Austen and Jacqueline Susann to the same back boudoir filled with overfrilled chintz...