Word: victorian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...center's new $11.3 million home is located in Newcastle's once-derelict Ouseburn Valley, a warehouse neighborhood of artists' studios and galleries. Built in a seven-story Victorian mill, the rejuvenated building's top floor features a gigantic, child-friendly loft, intended for performances, storytelling and book signings. The Engine Room, a light, airy room on the ground floor, offers space for everything from finger painting to exhibit-related games. Messages written by children in 1978 are contained in the Puffin Time Capsule, which has been buried in the hallway; the letters will be opened by children...
...Victorian virus has recently infected two of the top anime-tors: Miyazaki set his latest feature, Howl's Moving Castle, in a fanciful antique England; Otomo retreated to 1860s London for the first anime feature he has directed since Akira. Steamboy, available in two cuts (get the 126-min. director's version), sets a complex spy plot chugging across its sooty landscapes, with villains pursuing the boy hero--in some great chase scenes--to harness a 19th century WMD. Only the lad's ingenuity can defeat them. That's the power of anime: it's a weapon of mass perception...
...Otherwise, being 13 is awesome. You are starting to do everything yourself, go wherever you want, go on dates, go shopping. I love to do all that stuff, and my favorite pastime is taking photographs. I live in a Victorian-style house that my parents built themselves. It's on a 45-acre property in Marengo, Iowa. The house is on top of a big hill, so there are lots of opportunities for interesting pictures. The summer for me is awesome. I get to go to College for Kids-an enrichment program at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, county fair...
...such an unusual sight. And kids are still chasing after cars." These days, Urale does her chasing with the camera. In 1992, after realizing the world wasn't going to come to her as an actor, Urale enrolled at Melbourne's renowned Swinburne film school (now the Victorian College of the Arts). To help raise funds for her studies, friends and family pulled together to organize a "Cyclone Sima" appeal, and their faith in the fledgling filmmaker proved prophetic...
Hawk-visaged Basil Rathbone embodied Conan Doyle's detective in 14 B movies, some transporting him from Victorian to modern London to outwit the Nazis. As Dr. Watson, Nigel Bruce was an ideal foil for the great...