Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beatrix Potter grew up in the midst of such attitudes. Children were treated as miniature adults in her stifling Victorian home. Isolated on the third floor of a London mansion, she was taught to read from the early novels of Sir Walter Scott. It is not surprising that she filled her sterile existence with fantasy. She drew animals which she knew from vacations in the country, giving them clothes, names, and finally words. Though discouraged from such frivolity by her parents, Beatrix wrote and illustrated 21 animals-fairy tales in 20 years. When she married at 47, Beatrix Potter abandoned...
Such timorous Victorian technique in art is not to be found in this exhibit, even though artists of about the same historical period are represented (i.e., Beardsley, Blake). Eugene Delacroix, 19th century French rebel of classicism did not fear losing the charm of his drawing. Reclining Tiger, and from his sketches of a spotted leopard and a listless, striped tiger, framed he fearful symmetry of a wide-eyed beast of prey, Tigre Royale. Where in pencil, the tiger's feet were merely misshaped ovals, in lithograph form, the cat's paws took on the stream-lined and savage spikes...
...important tone and point-of-view of this late-Victorian period piece is thus economically set. Losey and Pinter are concerned with the social pressures afflicting Leo, and how his use of emotive and imaginative outlets for escape ultimately cripple...
...towering presence of the prison, Attica in many ways is the archetypal upstate New York community. Its ambience is one of spare Yankee economy distorted by the proximity of metropolitan Buffalo and the lure of markets (and profits) made available by the Thruway. There are old, elm-shaded Victorian homes hard by one and two story frame houses of no particular distinction; in the commercial district the new Citizens' Bank, done in businesslike red-brick modern, contrasts with the clapboard charm of Timm's Hardware. Attica has a variety of fraternal, youth and religious organizations, in addition to seven churches...
...restaurateur-raconteur for more than two decades; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. That no one knew Romanoff's precise age is a fitting footnote to the life of a legendary impostor who at various times passed himself off as Rasputin's assassin, the son of Victorian Prime Minister William Gladstone and a cousin of Czar Nicholas II. Actually, there is evidence that he was born Harry F. Gerguson, the son of Russian immigrants. After trying his hand at farming, peddling papers and bumming, the flamboyant phony with the Oxbridge accent migrated West in 1927. In Hollywood...