Word: victorian
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...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...
...Titanic" centers on the libidinous fumblings of the Tammurais, an apparently stodgy Victorian family nursing a tangle of Freudian misalliances. The patriarch, Richard (Brian J. Saccente '98), upon learning that his son Teddy is not actually 'of his seed,' indulges his merrily lecherous feelings for his son, while also pursuing the ship's sailor, Higgins (Peter E. Scott '98). His wife, Victoria (Rachel A. Siegel '96) reveals she thinks she has had an affair with her sister, Harriet (Tanya C. Krohn '97), who is variously identified as Victoria's daughter, Arabella, as well as the ship captain's daughter, Lidia...
...freshness and precision. Rachel Siegel's Victoria is the most compelling figure on the stage. She exhibits fine-tuned control in the role, evidenced by her ability to hold the audience rapt throughout a lengthy, silent reverie on her past sexual exploits. Siegel is able to simultaneously communicate the Victorian facade of Victoria, the manic sexual voracity lurking behind this exterior and the surprisingly human needs and doubts which underlie this destructive sexuality...
...awful grimace. But this blank visage was a versatile comic instrument. The giant eyes spoke all manner of emotions: ardor, terror, despair, sheer mulishness. The Keaton deadpan is stoic, heroic and as thoroughly modernist as a Beckett play or a Bauhaus facade. Next to him, Chaplin is a Victorian coquette, Lloyd a glad-handing politician...
...force of homage and imagination, Reminiscences de Don Juan, inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the text, he isolates from that piece a passage that erupts spectacularly in a cascade of chromatic octaves alternating with single notes. Liszt's dramatic ingenuity, writes Rosen, would "make explicit a Victorian condemnation of Don Juan's morals and amount to an assertion that his erotic misbehavior will lead to eternal damnation...