Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...acts, the show's heroine, Shirley Valentine manages to portray the dreary existence of a working class English housewife and her quest to break out of the confines of her kitchen. She confides her deepest sexual secrets--namely her absence of orgasm--and travels with the audience to the Greek Isles, where she takes a lover. With humor and spunk, Shirley makes a new life for herself...
...every opportunity, Tsongas reinforces his image as Mr. Candor: "I have only one horse to ride -- truth. If I give that up, I'm just a Greek from Massachusetts who has had cancer." This tactic extends to volunteering the fact that he required the assistance of a media coach to spice up his oatmeal style. In the past month his performance has risen from dreadful to mediocre, but his TV spots still use an announcer's voice rather than his drone...
Another problem is that Tsongas lacks the money to advertise as often as his rivals. Affluent Greek Americans who normally contribute heavily to their own have been holding back. "The Greek money is frozen," Tsongas concedes. With ! his frail treasury, his need to concentrate on New Hampshire and his lack of a national network, Tsongas has been unable to do much spadework outside New England. A victory in New Hampshire would solve his anonymity problem, but even that boost would leave him struggling desperately when the action moves to the South...
Nonetheless, Scully does not tread wearily through the book's itinerary (ancient Greek and Roman architecture, the Gothic cathedrals of France, Renaissance Florence, Versailles, Vaux-le-Vicomte, etc...); rather, he takes to it with abandon, incorporating a sensitivity to the literary and cultural context that surrounds the buildings he studies, and using a sparkling rhetorical style that enlivens a subject liable to be wearied by either dense technical jargon or the purple prose of art speak...
This parallels the developments in English landscape gardening in the 18th century, in which an ideal natural setting was created (including architectural fragments such as ersatz Greek temples and Gothic churches); this setting bears little resemblance to nature itself. The garden is, in fact, an environment just as artificial as the city...