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This year in Sydney there will be two more signs that these aren't the Victorian Olympics. For the first time, women will compete in weight lifting and the pole vault, once thought of as two of the highest-testosterone events of the Summer Games. Poised to make Olympic history are two American women who came to their sports via goat roping and tree-house building. Since those events aren't yet sanctioned, lifter Cheryl Haworth and vaulter Stacy Dragila will have to settle for medals in what used to be exclusively male pursuits...
...Among a string of strong fall performances for the women's team was a second-place finish in the Victorian Urn Trophy...
...very much like the work he became famous for; kind of Victorian, kind of Edwardian," she recalls. "It had the kind of way-out characters and costumes that he had fun creating...
Both men and women gathered on the grassy lawn next to Greenleaf, the large Victorian-styled residence on Brattle Street, traditionally the home of Radcliffe's leader...
...Sinatra was to popular music, so John Gielgud was to theater: The Voice. It could draw a word out into a long cello note or quaver like the lead fiddle in the pit of a Victorian melodrama. It made Shakespeare's verse immediately comprehensible and ethereal: perfectly analyzed, beautifully felt. Declaiming the final scene from King Lear in his solo Shakespeare show The Ages of Man, Sir John sounded like a noble basset. "Howl, howl, howl, howl!" The tone was mournful, then (an octave higher) deranged, then weirdly ecstatic and finally strangulated, stilled...