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...takes guts to pose with your armpits exposed like that.ANNE HATHAWAYThere is something about Anne Hathaway’s dress—perhaps it’s the combination a large funereal bow and an elaborate white lace train—that makes her look like an overgrown Victorian valentine. I don’t know why she wants to destroy all of the fashion-addict good will she received after her spunky performance in “The Devil Wears Prada,” but apparently she does. I don’t really understand...
...appeal to horn-rimmed graduate students of comparative literature who wouldn’t dare touch a book dealing with hopelessly unemancipated “pre-modern” thought—it’s really not all that true. James was far more associated with late-Victorian schools of psychology and philosophy than those of the modern era, and though his studies of pragmatism and consciousness were foundational in their fields, a group of chatting Harvard professors does not a maelstrom make. While he may be the source of the term “stream of consciousness?...
...knocked on his door, they were only too pleased to have his creative input. So the musical version of The Harder They Come, as adapted by Perry Henzell and directed by Kerry Michael and Dawn Reid, opened last March at Stratford's 460-seat Theatre Royal, a plush Victorian-era playhouse with a modern mission to foster black and community productions. Against expectations, the musical's short-run became a word-of-mouth success and broke all their box office records, so now the show is being restaged there as a tribute to the late director but also with...
...wondering if George Elliot thought brown muslin was ugly or awesome, and I really couldn’t concentrate. These disturbing recollections haunted me as I sat in several fashion shows, wondering why we were bringing this particular trend back. The large sleeves of 2007 are not necessarily Victorian in nature. Sometimes they reflect late sixties movies where Doris Day tries to pretend Rock Hudson is not gay. This year’s big sleeves also reflect the butterfly kaftans that dominated parties in the early seventies where everyone had sex with everyone else’s husband and listened...
...found meeting administrators and students over poached eggs and toast at Henrietta’s Table. She responds to e-mails personally and promptly on her BlackBerry. And on some weekend nights, she and other top legal scholars come together for poker parties at her Porter Square Victorian...