Word: edwardianism
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...Honfleur" for example is a relatively simple harbor scene with two sailboats, one red, one blue, at the right foreground, but the painting is not just pretty. When Binet paints this kind of subject, one hears a chatter of Edwardian polite conversation. With Malet, though, though, it is the screaming gull one imagines...
...MacDonald "If you need the theater and city lights," says English Novelist MacDonald, 45, "this isn't a very appealing life. You have to be able to live on your inner resources." He, his German-born wife Ingrid and their two daughters do just that in a dilapidated Edwardian house in County Offaly that they bought three years ago and have been refurbishing ever since. MacDonald's success came suddenly in 1974, when runaway sales of his novel World from Rough Stones sent the family scurrying from British taxes. At first he felt guilty about paying no taxes...
...woman who sang. Sam Bloomfield, director of the Leverett House production of the play that begins its run October 27, wants to restore the timeless story of the artist who chiselled away at the form of woman, only to discover he loved the substance beneath, to its Edwardian home. By presenting Shaw's play, which was first produced in London in 1913 as a reaction to Victorian morals, Bloomfield hopes to present, a picture of what Edwardian England was really like. The result should be better than any Henry Higgens ever got from Eliza--pure entertainment...
...stars immediately announced that they were reneging on their deal with Packer, and others were having second thoughts. At week's end Packer had not admitted defeat, but it began to look as if cricket would successfully weather his brash effort to inject show biz into its Edwardian reverie...
...dinner, in a restaurant somewhat funkier than the Edwardian Room, Linda speaks again of her childhood. Her memories, except for those of school, seem to be solid and good. The family was prosperous. She had a pony and later a horse. Her mother is a strong, intelligent woman with a gift for science (Linda's maternal grandfather was Lloyd Copeman, a successful inventor who devised an electric stove and an early form of microwave oven...