Word: victoriana
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cost of production as well. Eventually he got his way, and in 1960 the city gave him $60,000-revenue from subway chewing gum machines. Crisis followed crisis, but in 1971 he persuaded the city to buy the former Astor Library, a beautiful piece of Italian Renaissance Victoriana that had been destined for the wrecker's ball, and lease it to him for $ 1 a year...
Born into the stifling world of Victoriana, little Beatrix lived in a universe of iron stricture. There were bars on her bedroom windows; a grim governess ordered her life. She was denied dolls-but she was allowed to have a pet rabbit. It was that little rodent that formed the foundation for her career. Little Beatrix observed him well and immortalized him as Peter Rabbit. Her fresh pastel drawings and brief, energetic tales-of birds, foxes, fish and mice-caught the fancy of children throughout the Western world. By her death in 1943, Beatrix Potter was second to only...
...when in 1967 he came across a book by Robert W. Service, whose poetry he had loved as a child. Service's Yukon saloons,^ Canadian Mounties and rootin' tootin' shoot-em-ups meshed perfectly with Copley's scampering W.C. Fields style and his love of Victoriana. The lady is often nude ("Women's bodies are very charming"), the man always clothed ("I don't find nude men charming at all"). Whether waged with sword, six-shooter or mutual stubbornness, the eternal battle of the sexes virtually always ends in a standoff...