Word: victorian
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...pieces - including a Medusa-inspired bike helmet filled with writhing snakes - to join his L.A.-completed cactus and skull-in-a-beanbag works. But the centerpiece will be Killing Time, 2003-2004, a still-life table overflowing with the sea creatures of Swallow's Australian childhood in the Victorian fishing town of San Remo. Like the other Venice works, it is carved from the light, blond wood of the rubber tree, jelutong. Any paler and it would disappear into the walls. Up close, the forensic detail - a lobster springs up with the alacrity of an ocean wave, the rind...
...youngest son of a sugar magnate, who has come of age in California and now lives in New York City, where he teaches writing at Columbia University. The novel begins as he returns to the Philippines to bury his estranged father: in a scene straight out of a Victorian potboiler, the will is read in the posh attorney's offices, and Caracera learns that his father has bequeathed to him his largest legacy...
...owned by the National Trust, the houses at 54 Inge Street have been restored to reflect what it was like to live there in different eras. Visitors can join a guided tour (advance booking recommended) or stay in one of three "holiday cottages" restored in Georgian, Victorian and Art Deco styles...
Letterboxing is said to have started in England 150 years ago when a Victorian walker left a bottle by Cranmere Pool, Devon, with his calling card in it and an invitation to those who found the bottle to add theirs. It caught on in the U.S. after a 1998 article about the British pursuit appeared in Smithsonian magazine. Since then, more than 9,000 letterboxes have been planted in state parks and nature preserves around the country. Each waterproof box contains a logbook and a rubber stamp. Visitors mark the book with their stamp and use the stamp...
...frankly kind of sexy) letters to each other since they were 13, but they've never actually met. In fact, Alice refuses to let Gerard come to visit her. Does she have some connection to Gerard's creepy, semi-insane mom, who's also English? And to those Victorian horror tales that Gerard keeps stumbling across? What's she hiding, anyway? The answers are yes, yes, and wait...