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...most familiar ones is the pattern, probably unique to college campuses, which attends the opening of plays. A poster screams out in a bold font, "Random vaguely sexually suggestive quote," followed in small print by the date and time of the play, as if some unintentional Victorian double-entendre is enough to send sex-starved Harvard students running to see whatever amateur production is listed. Please! We might not have cable TV, but if we want to see more-than-vague suggestion we can always just flip on NYPD Blue...
Warner Books canceled The Diary of Jack the Ripper just one month before it was to appear in bookstores. A dealer in historical documents deemed the writings fake since, among other findings, the penmanship was not Victorian and ink tests showed the papers were written around...
...jewel of Stratford, plus a novel Saint Joan that turns her trial into a modern-day government inquiry cum media event. For popular tastes there are Blithe Spirit, Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None and the Jule Styne musical Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Newton is also directing a Victorian melodrama, The Silver King, presented as a Dickensian panorama. The other novelty is Carl Sternheim's 1911 satire of German bourgeois class anxiety, The Unmentionables, adapted to McCarthy-era America. The laughs it now evokes are mostly sentimental recognition for bygone jingles, not the disquieting humor intended in the original...
Pedophilia and other assorted sexually deviant behavior, because of new revelations of the transgressions of Roman Catholic priests, have been firmly lodged in recent headlines. But this is well-trod terrain. Sexual deviancy has been covered extensively and credibly in Victorian scatological literature as well as and perhaps most memorably by Nabokov...
...millionaires, the Ginsburgs live a relatively simple life, with a six- year-old Nissan and a 10-year-old Volvo and no country house. On weekends Marty loads up the car with cooking utensils, herbs and golf clubs for getaways to the Victorian house of friends in Connecticut. Last Christmas they went water skiing in Jumby Bay, near Antigua. They go to Europe annually for conferences (49, as they totted them up for the FBI; Ruth may be the first Justice to speak Swedish). Who works harder? On a trip to Israel in 1977 Martin gathered up his suntan lotion...