Word: victorianism
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...longed for. To put it as politely as possible, I have no interest in kittens as a design element--or, for that matter, as kittens. From the 10 check styles pictured in miniature on yet another page--styles with names like Radiant Beginnings and Victorian Rose--it was easy to decide that I didn't want any of them. If a variety of check styles gives each of us a chance to display our personality, I would prefer to be displayed as the sort of person who doesn't use checks with designs on them...
...want it all out in the open. Yes, I did send checks that were decorated with kittens and angels--maybe even a Victorian rose. But I hadn't ordered those checks. Those checks are not the real me. I am the sort of person who does not use checks with designs on them. Really...
...Acts who broke through in the '80s and '90s opened the show. A newly blond Sheryl Crow strutted her stuff in Victorian hippie garb followed by Hendrix aficionado Lenny Kravitz (playing rather louder than the comfort zone for most middle-aged Democrats), a soberly besuited Jon Bon Jovi and a beaming k.d. lang. The performers each contributed one or two of their hits, an astute choice for a benefit crowd that nuzzles more contentedly on familiarity than new terrain. When the artist roster first reached back into the 1970s it yielded the laid-back Buffet, who revealed the "play...
...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...
...fully restore the Dumas, a former brothel that opened in 1890. After seeing Almodovar on a talk show in 1998, Butte businessman Rudy Giecek, 57, who had acquired the dilapidated Dumas from its last madam, contacted her. Using little more than sweat equity, they have turned the 43-room Victorian building into a museum exploring the history of prostitution. One day Almodovar would also like to turn the Dumas into her foundation's "headquarters" (a fancy term for her tiny collective, run on a shoestring with loans from a New York City john). It may be the only place...