Word: edwardians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Peterman's world, on the other hand, has never been one particular place. Rather, Peterman retails an evoked time, a diffuse, multifaceted past located somewhere between the two World Wars, sometimes drifting back into the Edwardian. A thought along these lines appears in the text presenting an Indian Elephant Caftan (No. AAF7744. Silk crepe de Chine. $180. Bangalore, India): "Comeliness and the passions of the past happen to mean a lot to me, perhaps...
...fewer than four films based on E.M. Forster novels (A Room with a View, Maurice, Where Angels Fear to Tread and Howards End). She finds the age attractive--"Women tend to be the protagonists," she notes, "not the ornamental love interest"--and the age returns the favor. If Edwardian England hadn't existed, James Ivory might have had to invent...
Long family chronicles were once, of course, staples of Victorian and Edwardian fiction, and the reason they have been far less commonplace since is their tendency, in inexpert hands, to be enslaved by chronology, to become little more than one damned thing after another. Updike aims to avoid this danger by using overarching themes to bind up the threads of his lengthy story: the decline of religious faith and the corresponding rise of the movies...
Allan Piper's lanky Hamlet resembles a figure from an Evelyn Waugh novel, dressed in Edwardian finery and scribbling in a little notebook he keeps in his breast pocket. His initial monologues are compelling and his command of the verse consistently excellent. As the play progresses, however, Piper seems to run out of emotions: he alternates between declamation and manis, with little variation...
...such that Blankley has been known to light up using the tiny flames under chafing dishes at early-morning press breakfasts. For Blankley, the relaxed smoking rules signify not a smelly sort of revenge, as Democrats view it, but a return to a more civilized era, redolent of Edwardian velvet jackets. "I'm hopeful that as a society we are returning to the habits of an earlier day when good manners ruled rather than dogma," he says. Antismoking rules are unnecessary, he believes, if "we use common sense and decency." Even President Clinton last week was unrepentant about puffing...