Word: victorian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stages in small towns and villages in the 19th century. For one night only, they performed Hamlet's soliloquies and Tennyson's odes and transported the locals to a distant world. Last week, on a snowy New Hampshire evening, Pat Buchanan brought his one-man traveling show to the Victorian-era Opera House in the northern town of Littleton, a gemlike stage once graced by Mrs. Tom Thumb and Gorgeous George...
Onstage Buchanan plays the Victorian gallant when introducing his wife Shelley. "I want to introduce the lady I intend to nominate to replace Hillary Rodham Clinton," Buchanan says. Shelley sits onstage with a dreamy, sphinxlike smile. It was during Nixon's 1968 campaign that Buchanan worked shoulder to shoulder with Nixon's shy but capable secretary Shelley Scarney. He married the only child of a Detroit ophthalmologist...
Long family chronicles were once, of course, staples of Victorian and Edwardian fiction, and the reason they have been far less commonplace since is their tendency, in inexpert hands, to be enslaved by chronology, to become little more than one damned thing after another. Updike aims to avoid this danger by using overarching themes to bind up the threads of his lengthy story: the decline of religious faith and the corresponding rise of the movies...
Everyone agrees that no matter how attractive the musician, if the performance is lacking, the career will not take off. Says Harnoy, the cellist whose bodice-baring Victorian dresses sometimes distract attention from her accomplished playing: "If this is getting albums sold, great. But I don't think if somebody buys my album because they like the picture, they will buy the next album because they like the picture. If the music is not pleasing them, there are only so many pictures they want to have...
...Village, Cottage, Townhomes and Apartments. There was an extra bin for the rentals. The occasional cheer went up as the winners were read out. People whose number came up early got first crack at signing a contract with one of the approved builders and choosing a house style: Classical, Victorian, Colonial Revival, Coastal, Mediterranean or French. (Alas, nothing resembling the Swiss Family Robinson treehouse.) The first 350 units are scheduled to be occupied by June 1996, but it will take several years for Celebration to reach its full size of 8,000 homesites and a population...