Word: victorian
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...fountain and a gazebo, Dickey House combines the convenience of a hotel with the intimacy of a B and B. The three rooms in the mansion and four suites in cottages on the grounds are all equipped with private bath, TV and VCR, and are decorated with elegant Victorian antiques...
Perched on a hilltop in southwestern Virginia, the Oaks garnered its name from the seven historic oak trees, now more than 300 years old, that surround the Queen Anne Victorian house, built for a bride in 1889. Its gardens unfold along Christiansburg's Main Street, once part of the Wilderness Road forged by Daniel Boone, today close to the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway and a rails-to-trails bicycle path...
...longed for. To put it as politely as possible, I have no interest in kittens as a design element--or, for that matter, as kittens. From the 10 check styles pictured in miniature on yet another page--styles with names like Radiant Beginnings and Victorian Rose--it was easy to decide that I didn't want any of them. If a variety of check styles gives each of us a chance to display our personality, I would prefer to be displayed as the sort of person who doesn't use checks with designs on them...
...want it all out in the open. Yes, I did send checks that were decorated with kittens and angels--maybe even a Victorian rose. But I hadn't ordered those checks. Those checks are not the real me. I am the sort of person who does not use checks with designs on them. Really...
...Acts who broke through in the '80s and '90s opened the show. A newly blond Sheryl Crow strutted her stuff in Victorian hippie garb followed by Hendrix aficionado Lenny Kravitz (playing rather louder than the comfort zone for most middle-aged Democrats), a soberly besuited Jon Bon Jovi and a beaming k.d. lang. The performers each contributed one or two of their hits, an astute choice for a benefit crowd that nuzzles more contentedly on familiarity than new terrain. When the artist roster first reached back into the 1970s it yielded the laid-back Buffet, who revealed the "play...