Word: edwardians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YEARS AGO: WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST? When the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912, more than 80% of those who drowned were men. Many had relinquished lifeboat seats to members of the gentler sex. Eight decades later, the dictates of Edwardian civility no longer hold much water. In a survey the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette learned that only 35% of the men on a Titanic II today would cede their lifeboat spots to children or women who weren't their wives. A mere 54% would give up seats for their mothers and 67% for their spouses...
HOWARDS END. E.M. Forster's novel of property and prejudice in Edwardian England is voluptuously rendered by director James Ivory and handsomely peopled by Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Vanessa Redgrave and Anthony Hopkins. See it to savor the glory that England once was -- and that movies, all too rarely...
...Howards End, Forster's richest novel, has become Merchant Ivory's finest film. Elegant and powerful, accommodating collisions of class and temperament with the grace of a perfect Edwardian hostess, Howards End is the work to which all Merchant Ivory's other films have pointed and aspired...
...stage perhaps takes understated symbolism just a little too far. Props, costumes, walls--everything is white, the white of outmoded Edwardian prudery. An iron lattice like the bars of a cage, also white, forms a backdrop. By providing so much evidence of the family's obsession with respectability, the stage manager insults the viewer's intelligence...
...American middle classes spent their eight years under Reagan spending, trying to live up to the glitz. Image was everything, and Polo was the rage. The Polo store, with its antiqued mahogany, riding gear and posh addresses crafted an image of a glorious Edwardian gentry past that America never...