Word: victorians
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...VICTORIAN AMERICA: CLASSICAL ROMANTICISM TO GILDED OPULENCE, by Wendell Garrett (Rizzoli; $65). The over-the-top style known as Victorian celebrated the industrial age's lucky few. Never mind that for the masses, conspicuous consumption usually meant an advanced case of tuberculosis. Still, the rich could be both showy and tasteful. Garrett's homage to opulent eclecticism guides us through the layered textures and studied array of objets that . whisper "old money" while at the same time suggesting the mother of all garage sales...
Nancy Archer is the goofy, exaggerated incarnation of a character we know well: she is every Victorian heroine anguished by her own passivity, every sit-com wife stuck in a split-level with a Michelob-loving numbskull. She is the woman who has had enough -- Thelma or Louise, or Lorena Bobbitt minus a kitchen knife...
INCITE! Free, and done by my friend Tim, and one of the biggest influences on the way I think or write about music; accurate reviews share the pocket-sized spaces with graphics approrpriated from Victorian magazines and with offbeat autobiographical bits (like "Out of the Way First Names: A History of People"). Write to P O Box 649, Cambridge, MA 02138; you may be a slightly happier person after reading Tim's zine, which is more than I can say for my own work. See you next year...
...most controversial change (curiously, since nobody spends much time there) is in the Lincoln Sitting Room, recast from fairly boring Reagan-Bush conventionality to Victorian overload. In the family's personal rooms, the palette shifts to pleasant pastels, prompting one visitor to observe that the Bushes' patrician threadbare-and-dog- hair style had given way to a less inviting, don't-touch tidiness. Perhaps that can be remedied by time, wear and Socks...
Wooster Square. Six blocks East of the New Haven Green is Wooster Square, a small neighborhood green lined by some of the city's few remaining neo-Victorian houses built around the turn of the century, New Haven's glory heyday. Today New Haven's large Italian working class calls it home...