Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Moral Struggles. This scheme is as wild as any ever manufactured by a Victorian theatrical melodramatist and if Chabrol's plot reminds us of antique theatrical forms, so do his characters. They seem to exist mainly to demonstrate how - caught up in our own pre occupations and bemused by the ambiguities and polite deceptions of modern behavior - we miss the moral struggles going on around...
...spinal inertia and total mental ennui. Finally, he largely abandoned his strong suit, which was a flair for vituperatively explosive dialogue and bitchy humor. Instead, his characters have spoken for years now with intolerably stilted pomposity, as if they had wandered out of an unpublished work by some minor Victorian novelist...
...burgeoning board of art works. The dedicated scholar or the graduate student in Harvard's Museum Course who was invited to the house at 15 East 81st Street would have been ushered into the still and rarefied atmosphere of a crowded private gallery by a grave and reserved Victorian gentleman, his dignified features adorned by a shining pince-nez perched above a neatly dressed moustache and small beard...
...commute to his job in a Boston Liquor factory. He proudly displayed his poster of Karl Marx on one of the apartment walls, and shortly afterwards invited the landlady--a nice, conservative, elderly woman--in for tea. Seeing the Marx poster, the woman asked Nick who the bearded, stern Victorian gentleman was. Nick was not fazed: he explained that it was a picture of "a German philosopher whom I admire very much." Minard was not afraid of admitting his political position; he just couldn't bring himself to break the gentle lady's conviction that he was a nice, proper...
There's no place like home for the holidays, unfortunately. Sandringham House, the 365-room Victorian manor in Norfolk where Queen Elizabeth usually throws a lavish New Year's house party, is closed this year for a $550,000 modernization. The Queen, 48, her husband Prince Philip, 53, their sons Princes Charles, 26, Andrew, 14, and Edward, 10, and a handful of servants squeezed themselves into a nearby six-bedroom farmhouse known as Wood Farm; all other royals, including the Queen Mother, 74, and guests, were left to fend for themselves in nearby fiefs or hotels. Only...