Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haunting of M is a Victorian ghost story. Even on a low budget, the movie successfully presents a lush and mysterious atmosphere. The cinematography by Gregory Nava imbues light with a sinister and unearthly aura. People quiver before the firelight and become disembodied; eerily-lit heads swathed in darkness. The carefully sculptured garden becomes a foreboding place, a jungle, at dawn. The shadows don't disappear in the sunlight, for much of the intrigue occurs in the silver blue of early morning. Such mysteriousness gives The Haunting of M the patina of a well-made gothic movie. And like many...
...Savannah, Ga., efforts began in the mid-'70s to restore the city's Victorian district, tenanted mainly by the poor, elderly and black. It was slow going until McNulty and Partners went to work, championing the project, bringing in TV reporters and, at one point in 1978, even luring an approving First Lady Rosalynn Carter to town. During her visit, the Ford Foundation announced a loan of $750,000. The ballyhoo also convinced the black community that gentrification was not just for the gentry...
...bulldozers raged, we fell in love with buildings we had never noticed. We now look fondly on cobblestone pavements, miniparks, Victorian lampposts, benches, fountains, sidewalk cafés, pushcarts and street artists. Preservation of the past in planning for the future seems to dominate urban design...
While thousands of Harvard students cheered lustily last weekend at the numerous Princeton-Harvard encounters here in Cambridge, one of Harvard's most outstanding and successful teams--the women's sailing squad--capped off a stellar season in relative obscurity by handily winning the Victorian Coffee Urn Regatta in the Charles River Basin...
What do you bid, James?" Her husband offers "my strength for your defense, my honesty for your surety" and other proprieties of a Victorian gentleman. Marchbanks answers: "My weakness! My desolation! My heart's need!" Candida chooses Morell as the weaker...