Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lance Morrow wrote a distorted romantic fantasy about how love thrives "when it breaks all the rules" [VIEWPOINT, May 4]. But Letourneau is not a Victorian heroine who pitched away her bourgeois life for a star-crossed affair with the man of her dreams. She is a deeply troubled woman caught between the pressures of a failed marriage and financial bankruptcy. And her lover is no man, but a child. We should not romanticize adults who use children as outlets for frustrations and needs. Whether the perpetrator is an attractive woman or a menacing 300-lb. biker, whether the victim...
...Dunkin' Donuts at Roswell Road and Sandy Springs Place, just north of Atlanta, has more to offer than crullers and glazes. Show up around midmorning, and you'll find a striking 49-year-old woman dressed to win a role in a Victorian stage production. Faye Yager has a collection of hats Mae West would have killed for, and today's is a black felt, feathered affair...
Passing Quincy, Prescott and Felton Streets while walking eastbound, much of the old Cambridge splendor surfaces. Victorian houses protrude to the edge of the street, and torrents of tree pollen and flowers cascade from the Dogwood trees...
...north toward Mackinac (pronounced Mackinaw) Island, on U.S. Route 31. Stop at the Music House, a 1906 barn that has antique, automated musical instruments in a reconstructed, turn-of-the-century museum. Continue north through the charming towns of Charlevoix and Petoskey and past the outstanding collection of 400 Victorian homes in Bay View. Another site not to miss: the scenic drive up State Road 119, between Harbor Springs and Cross Village...
There are certainly elements of Haight-Ashbury at these two quaint Victorian houses off Mass. Ave. One front porch hosts tapestry-print pillows scattered on porch seats and a conspicuous sign that reads "Center for High Energy Metaphysics." Fish live in a large bathtub in the window of the common room, with "Happiness is Now" painted on the side panel of their rather green mini-pond. A suspicious salt-shaker containing "oregano" graces the kitchen cabinet, and the refrigerator holds only rows of organic milk. Further inspection reveals a compost bin, a new vegetable garden and walls covered with Communist...