Word: victorianism
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...maps and pictures to know that they’re full of it. If your house was in Tacony in 1903, it’s still part of Tacony 100 years later. Besides, it’s easy to tell where Tacony begins and ends, just look for the Victorian architecture on the east-west cross streets...
Houellebecq has a gift for sleepy invective; he has contempt for both freedom and authority. But he's like a bad date--brimming with rank charm but few useful judgments. The great nihilist doesn't even know what a closet Victorian he is. Michel sentimentalizes commercial sex, imagining a Western encounter with the Third World that will be calculating and unglamorous but, all in all, gentle. You might say "gently empty." The empty part is a good bet. Somebody remind the author that the gentleness is not to be counted on. --By Richard Lacayo
...surpassed that goal. Today, Tembi has the cheerful feel of a tropical Victorian Utopia, a model community in the tradition of William Morris, with Purser cast in the role of philosopher-king. Evidence of the village's global reach and newfound affluence are everywhere. Purser says he pays above-average wages, and he established a foundation to distribute some of the profits to the townspeople. Thus far, the foundation has created a health clinic, a gamelan school and a simple fitness center. The company pays for school uniforms and books. After two years of service, an unmarried employee gets...
...first book, Down and Out in Paris and London, was a nonfiction account of several months in the late 1920s spent among hoboes and whores, picking hops and washing dishes. Worried about his parents' reaction to his stark life, he took the pseudonym George Orwell - probably from his hero Victorian novelist George Gissing and from the Orwell, a Suffolk river whose precincts the young nature lover hiked. It was a commercial flop, but it established him as a proletarian writer with an eye for detail. He began picking up commissions for essays and reviews, sometimes turning out four or five...
...Grace kids, Mallory, Jared and Simon, are the latest tyro trio to find themselves entangled in creepy adventures. Especially after a busted marriage forces them to move from the city into a ramshackle Victorian manse. Mallory's hair gets mysteriously knotted to the headboard of her bed. Simon's tadpoles are frozen into an ice-cube tray. Blame seems to rest on Jared, until he uncovers a strange book, a field guide to faeries that identifies the culprits. Turns out faeries are not all Tinkerbell types; the genus encompasses goblins, hobgoblins, brownies, trolls, ogres, dwarfs and sprites, some of them...