Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Manhattan's Victorian, red-and-gilt Metropolitan Opera House was transformed one night last week into a nightmarish, shriekingly demented world of sight and sound. The occasion: the Met's long overdue production of Wozzeck, by the late, famed atonalist, Alban Berg. It was one of the great nights in Met history...
Webster Lithgow, whose arrangement of the bare stage for Six Characters was unobtrusively correct and atmospherically grubby, has under-estimated the need for Victorian naturalism in the settings for Earnest, which should never be designed by anyone but Cecil Beaton. The play is very carefully related to its background in life--Wilde even knows the address of John Worthing's town house. (Fen Lasell's formidable costumes are much more in the vein, because they appear impeccably "period...
...caught up from the moment of his arrival in a Muscovite version of Anastas Mikoyan's recent visit to the U.S. From the airport Radio Moscow carried his initial words ("serious talks . . . better understanding") to a nationwide audience. As his Moscow residence. Macmillan was assigned a gingerbread Victorian mansion once occupied by Russia's ex-Premier Georgy Malenkov (who now presumably sleeps near a power station in remote Kazakhstan). Ahead of Macmillan lay the Inevitable ballet performances. Kremlin receptions, the tours of collective farms, visits to Kiev and Leningrad...
...Night to Remember. A skillful recreation, based on Walter Lord's 1956 bestseller, of the sinking of the Titanic, which also serves as an ironic commentary on the blind and prideful optimism of the Victorian...
...poetry. To keep his island from becoming "a right little, tight little clinic," he is constantly embroiled in some passionate public campaign -to subdue TV aerials, to save ancient towing canals or musty little churches. He writes glowing guidebooks, and he has so cleaned up the despised name of Victorian Gothic architecture that some of his readers are able to look even on London's Stygian train terminals with a kindly...