Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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London Correspondent Mary Cronin spends many of her free weekends haunting English antique fairs. "Three years ago," she says, "I used to buy only & bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...
London Correspondent Mary Cronin spends many of her free weekends haunting English antique fairs. "Three years ago," she says, "I used to buy only bric-a-brac, which was all I could afford. I remember admiring, but not buying, a pair of beautiful Victorian lace curtains that cost (pounds)45, or $84 then. Two months ago, I became the proud owner of two pairs of those curtains for $80. Hog heaven...
Charles Sullivan, head of the Historical Commission, said yesterday that the Victorian style, three-story structure is indeed "historically significant." He added that the 1892 building was constructed by two local architects who designed "a number of fairly claborate apartments in Cambridge...
While the elks seethed, the hippies did their thing. They restored many of the Victorian jewel-box buildings (the entire town was named a national historic district in 1963) and established tough, low-growth zoning codes. Fifteen summer festivals, including one for mushrooms, sprang up; the eleven- year-old Telluride film festival is one of the most respected in the U.S. Radio station KOTO still plays the marching music. "Some days you can hear 6 1/2 hours of Bob Dylan," says Actress Susan Saint James, who came for the film festival and decided to buy a house five years...
...delegated loose authority over his manuscripts to several confidants, to speed up both the process of getting into print and the payment of his royalties. But editors on both sides of the Atlantic were perturbed by certain aspects of The Beach. Changes were made by several hands to protect Victorian readers from tropical immoralities. When Stevenson finally saw the serialized version in a London newspaper, he complained of "the slashed and gaping ruins" of what he had written...