Word: edwardianism
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Married, with five children, Hambrecht lives in an Edwardian-style home in San Francisco's opulent Pacific Heights district. In recent years he has begun diverting some of his attention, and money, to Democratic politics. A major backer of Presidential Candidate Alan Cranston of California, Hambrecht explains that in politics, as in business, he has "a natural affinity for the underdog...
...ensemble-named for its performing space, a chastely remodeled former grand-opera house-is mounting productions ranging from Hamlet to Godspell, from a transvestite Arsenic and Old Lace to a studiously Edwardian The Doctor's Dilemma. Phillips will direct four of the nine main stage productions and co-direct three more. (The schedule also includes five children's shows, adapted from stories by Paul Gallico.) The actors, many of them veterans of the Phillips era at Stratford, work in true repertory: a weekend visitor can see four plays in two days; at its peak during December, the Grand...
...family ever dies, as radical social psychologists keep predicting, Public Broadcasting may go out of business as well. Among its best and most popular offerings have been series that examine that institution. First there were the Forsytes, then the Louds. Now there are the Bellamys, masters of an Edwardian town house in London and, to their way of thinking, masters of the world as well...
...Kiss Me, Kate, "and they'll all kowtow." As master artificer of Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, Director Trevor Nunn has applied brush, tweezers, rouge and style to this dowager of a "problem play." He has outfitted her in the decorous billows and sashes of Edwardian England, taught her to sing and dance, sent her on a grand tour of Belle Epoque France and war-weary Italy. Now, fresh from triumphs in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, this radiant creature has come to charm Broadway for 16 weeks. Three cheers and a kowtow are in order...
...Thorndike remembers another event the club sponsored that did not evoke such unanimous praise the "Fight Night" held in 1968. "It was an Edwardian era-type thing Men wore old-fashioned tuxes. We had cigars and brandy and a boxing ring in the center of the dining room with up-and-coming local fighters boxing against each other," Thorndike says...