Word: victorian
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...though he would hesitate to use a word as incendiary as “dangerous.”“It would be dismaying to me if a person were to have two or three courses in contemporary cartoons instead of courses in Shakespeare, 17th century poetry, and Victorian culture,” he says.Teskey’s not alone, according to Connor: “[University Professor] Helen Vendler has said that our students watch [recent Hollywood film] ‘Troy’ and don’t read ‘The Iliad...
...Orleans just signed an agreement to open up four miles of riverfront for development, including a one-mile-long park replacing wharves. Nearby, developer Pres Kabacoff's $318 million plan to transform the St. Thomas housing project into River Garden-a mixed-income neighborhood with Creole cottages, Victorian doubles and Greek Revival houses-should get back on track this month. And a few blocks away, KB Home, one of the nation's largest builders, will turn dirt this spring on 58 lots for Orleans-style homes. With $50 billion in private insurance payouts and government help...
Sarah Waters has switched gears. Her latest novel, The Night Watch, is a departure from her first three: instead of her reader-tested Victorian settings, she's jumped to the 1940s. Her mainstay of one or two central protagonists has evolved into an ensemble of characters. Oh, yeah - and the novel's narrative moves backwards in time. "It did feel like a leap of faith," reflects Waters, 39, eating satsumas in her publisher's London office. Her manner is almost shy, but she exudes a palpable self-possession. "I thought," she says, with a hint of wistfulness to her smile...
...rather ungainly. This harmless movie won’t provoke any violent reactions, but it is a pitiful tribute to Wilde’s writing. In a desperately blatant attempt to make this film appealing to American viewers, Barker has moved the story out of Wilde’s Victorian drawing rooms and into 1930s Italy. Also, the two lead female roles, Lady Erlynne and Meg Windemere (Scarlett Johansson, “Lost in Translation”) have been inexplicably rewritten as Americans. Barker also took the drastic step of substituting beautiful costumes for solid acting. The cast looks wonderful...
...from his shoulders. John Milton was a very interesting, understated dresser. But the literary dilettante I am most inspired by was probably my maternal grandfather. Both my grandfathers were literary dilettantes. That is to say they wrote execrable poetry with great enthusiasm. They had most of Tennyson memorized.THC: How Victorian of them!GT: Edwardian. I’m not of that age yet.THC: Are you inspired by any screen idols? Cary Grant? Gregory Peck? Jimmy Stewart?GT: Oh yes, Cary Grant was a fantastically careful man. In the really old films the men were dressed wonderfully, and it?...