Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than La Rand, but the stripper and the seaside town both exude a garish, garter-snapping exuberance that has largely disappeared from affluent America. The boardwalk - and for most visitors the boardwalk is Atlantic City - is an unbelievable anachronism, a eupeptic blend of pre-war Coney Island and a Victorian mu sic hall, where vulgarity, dodgem-car din, sentimentality and pushy camara derie reign uninhibited and unabashed...
Mostly, designers stuck to the rule of form following function. Tables, chairs, bookcases took a stripped-down, right-angular appearance supposed to defeat the Victorian furbelows that used to defy efficient cleaning. But-perhaps because vacuum cleaners are better than they used to be-the latest in functional form has found new curves to swing by (see color pages...
Everything, that is, but emotional maturity. Mother was part of his problem. The wife of a housemaster at Rugby, she was a proper, pre-Freudian Victorian to the last glove button. Young Rupert, who arrived after his mother had lost a daughter in infancy, was often told that she had terribly hoped he would be a girl...
...there honey still for tea?"), he floundered through one infatuation after another. But with the only girl who really wanted a serious relationship, Rupert backed and filled, made himself sick and finally fled to the South Seas. He admitted, says Hassall, that "he was, most regrettably, a Victorian at heart." At 27, only a few months before his death, he confessed in a letter to Cathleen Nesbitt, then a struggling young actress, that he was "a cripple, incomplete. . . . I seemed to have missed everything...
...Calla. The style had its origins in pre-Raphaelite painting, flourished in Toulouse-Lautrec's famous posters of Jane Avril, and was murdered by the cold cubism of Weimar's Bauhaus. Now it seems oldfashioned, yet it marked a rebellion against the fussy, historically eclectic aspects of Victorian art. It found its forms in nature: the lily (water, tiger and calla), clinging vines, leaves of all kinds, jellyfish, polyps-a whole botanical garden of gentle, curving shapes...