Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world in search of old-fashioned romance has closely followed this year's fairy-tale stories about Britain's Prince Charles and the Princess of Wales. Selling British romance has also proved a fine business for Laura Ashley Ltd., which has turned a blend of Victorian ruffles and patterns into a nearly $100 million-a-year women's wear and home-furnishings company. The firm's line of frilly blouses, pastel flowered bedspreads and quilted tea cozies now sells from San Francisco to Singapore and from Milan to Melbourne...
...drove home in the wee hours. His high school class reunion earlier that night had been a rousing success, and in three days a contract was to be signed for the final phase of his proudest achievement: a fiveyear, $194 million renewal of Lynn's downtown. Vast, empty Victorian brick factories, relics of the Lynn's long reign as "Shoe Capital" of the nation, were being recycled to serve a reawakening city as offices, stores, apartments and classrooms. But as he drove along Boston Street, Magrane was seized with panic. "I saw flames and said...
THERE ARE, if recent productions are any indication, two ways to stage The Pirates of Penzance today. One is to find a couple of sultry rock and roll sexpots to sing the leads, tinkering around with Sir Arthur Sullivan's score a little to make the romantic Victorian solos sound more like "It's So Easy to Fall in Love." The other is to follow the sturdy set of schticks that has been handed down virtually unchanged over the years since the operetta's debut a century ago with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. To his credit, Paul...
Black playwright Gus Edwards also writes about trapped people, but his people are Black and his setting contemporary. Except they might as well be white and the setting Victorian England. Three Fallen Angels concerns a man, his wife and his best friend, a young co-worker. The friend falls for the wife. "I got to kiss you. I got to know how it feels," he says. Completely inarticulate, encased within themselves, the "angels" can only express their feelings physically: erotic dancing, lovemaking, or (how many times have you seen this?) a just-for-fun sparring match between...
...morning, 100 policemen surrounded the factory, which sits amid the Victorian terrace houses of Manchester's Openshaw district. Officers calmly asked the workers to move away from the factory gates and the 15-ft. wall surrounding the compound. Slowly the picketers obeyed, glaring at police during a tense half-hour...