Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...granny is not a grandmother but a garment: a dress that covers the wearer from neck to ankle, a kind of nipped-in Mother Hubbard gussied up with Victorian furbelows and bows. Real-life grannies would not be caught dead in one: grannies are only for girls...
Returning to the House for the naming of a private dining room in honor of him and his wife, the former Master, who teaches a course on Victorian England, assessed his year on Sabbatical and pointed to racial prejudice as the country's most serious problem today...
...with "The Larsens-America's First Family of Magicians," they grew out of the family trade and into TV writing, until they heard about the planned demolition of the old house on the hill. They bought the place, then spent a year refurbishing it with bits of vanished Victorian homes and pieces of spooky abracadabra. Opened less than three years ago with 64 members, the club has conjured up a membership of 1,300, a third of them amateur or professional magicians. The rest are just writers, businessmen, professional people and a few show business sorts who like...
...strikingly successful. His hallmark is a jumpy, free-association style of editing, and The Knack is made up of very short scenes like blackout sketches and several longer set pieces (such as the already-famous one in which Colin, Tom, and Nancy push, paddle, and ride a Victorian wrought-iron bed through London). To a wild, try-anything-a-couple-of-times sense of humor Lester brings an understated visual style. What might be unbearably corny in other hands scores through its restraint. Nancy, for example, seeks directions from a surveyor as he positions an assistant carrying the sighting pole...
...JACK, by Louise Hall Tharp. An immensely readable biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner, one of Boston's most colorful Victorian lady eccentrics. Armed with money, an unfettered imagination and a whim of iron, she kept Boston's newspapers in copy with her antics for half a century - and along the way assembled a collection of great art now housed in the Gardner Museum...