Word: victorian
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...anachronistic, trying to drown out a freeway full of SUV?s. And I admit this: I share your cynicism. General-interest magazines like TIME have reduced the space devoted to reviews and expand their entertainment "news" coverage. The voice of the traditional print critic, uttering lofty dicta from his Victorian armchair, has become both fainter and more shrill. That?s why many of us have made sorties into the electronic camp of the online enemy. Where can you find me every week? Not in TIME but, gratefully and lengthily, on time.com. It?s a place to take my expertise...
...even less high-minded generation of developers and builders, Mies' elegant minimalism was simply a green light to throw up thousands of hasty glass cartons in every city and suburban office park. What we learned from those is that mediocre Modernism looks even worse than mediocre Victorian. There's less to look at, and what there is, is cheap. But Mies' work was something different. He found a way to make the barest of bare bones sumptuous and even exciting. As Spencer Tracy once said about Katharine Hepburn, "There ain't much meat on her, but what there...
Four nurses were supposed to be on duty, but because of staff shortages, there were often only two. Several times visitors found Brunton lying in his own excrement. He got bedsores. For two days in March, when outside temperatures were just above freezing, the heating in the Victorian pile was turned off for repairs and his temperature plummeted alarmingly. Brunton was wrapped in an insulating blanket to get warmer on his own, which he did. After six weeks in such conditions, Brunton died. The doctors and nurses who looked after him "worked heroically," says his son Paul. "But the system...
...insulating blanket and left to get warmer on his own - which he did. Later they thought he was hallucinating when he said a man had come through the ceiling. But sure enough, there was a hole there left by a worker struggling to repair something in the decrepit Victorian pile, ranked as one of Britain's top 40 hospitals...
...accounts he was calm. He looked in the eyes of the witnesses - the media, his lawyers, and those whose lives he had forever and horrifically altered. He gave no statement, but he had copied out "Invictus," William Ernest Henley's ode to Victorian conquest, which contains the famous line, "I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul...