Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fight HIV. Incredible as it sounds, Anderson's own immune system seems to have held the villainous virus at bay. "It feels good to be on the winning side of HIV," he says. Looking to the future with surprisingly little fear, he hopes to fix up the crumbling Victorian house that he shares with his HIV-negative companion of 10 years...
Originally intended for undergraduate commuters who couldn't live on campus for financial or other reasons, Dudley House now serves 85 undergraduates who choose to live off campus or in Dudley Co-op, which consists of two Victorian buildings 10, minutes from the Science Center...
...Babe Ruth -- but for 30 seasons it has fostered a nonprofit theater of increasingly venturesome repertoire. Housed in a converted college building amid the rundown brick facades of downtown, Center Stage has debuted Eric Overmyer's On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning, a sprightly fantasy about three Victorian women explorers that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims of syphilis that was a 1992 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama; and Overmyer's The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin...
...Dead Poets Society": Prep schools are prisons run by desiccated old Victorian schoolmasters. The students are repressed and uptight and their parents are even worse--they'll push you till you can't take it anymore and you'll end up sneaking into your father's desk in the middle of the night to find his gun so you can blow your brains...
...book and the magazine that inspired it are the product of a group of brainy (if eccentric) visionaries holed up in a rambling Victorian mansion perched on a hillside in Berkeley, California. The MTV-style graphics are supplied by designer Bart Nagel, the overcaffeinated prose by Ken Goffman (writing under the pen name R.U. Sirius) and Alison Kennedy (listed on the masthead as Queen Mu, "domineditrix"), with help from Rudy Rucker and a small staff of free-lancers and contributions from an international cast of cyberpunk enthusiasts. The goal is to inspire and instruct but not to lead...