Word: gaslit
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...depends on such conventions as a villain in a top hat and rescuers in disguises (one does a drag impersonation of Queen Victoria). The stage is tiny and the choreography consequently minimal, yet in one serendipitous moment a painted cloth is lit from behind to become a foggy, gaslit, sweeping vista of a Sherlock Holmes-style England...
Deflating as these anticlimaxes are, they still do not alter the achievement of what has gone before. The early scenes, which unfold in the green hills and gaslit haunts of a dusky rural mining town, are full of flavor and native humor. When the pallid, naive Loretta marries an Army veteran of 19 (Tommy Lee Jones) and moves with him to Washington State to raise a family, the couple's first ignorant encounters with sex and the outside world are conveyed with tender humor rather than condescension. When Loretta gets her first guitar and starts to pick and sing...
...aging tycoons were enjoying the fruits of their conquests in the world of finance and politics. Their sons and daughters were whirling at fashionable balls, attending the opera and negotiating advantageous marriages. Along the gaslit avenues, streetcars were beginning to compete with horse-drawn landaus. Sounds like some place in fin-de-siècle Europe? Actually it is Rio de Janeiro during the last quarter of the 19th century, as affectionately remembered by Brazil's extraordinary novelist, Machado de Assis, who died in 1908. A popular author during his lifetime, Machado was rediscovered in Brazil at the time...
...Thannhauser's Picassos stretch from a 1960 oil of symbolic doves back to a small work of 1898, when the artist still signed his name P. Ruiz Picasso. Next is Picasso's first oil done in Paris, Le Moulin de la Galette, a muted 1900 Lautrecian cabaretscape, gaslit with top hats as sleek and glassy as carafes of absinthe. Included, almost as a talisman, is the 1905 painting of Two Harlequins, one of the few survivors of the Thannhauser Paris collection...
...wear coats and ties. Says one cabaret owner: "We give a buck's worth of booze for a buck. And no strolling, lonely chicks. Once you start letting that happen, you are in for trouble." Today, the Square has no strippers, no gyp joints, lots of good clean gaslit...