Word: victorians
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...Shefelman has chosen to apply those skills to an unusual occupation: Shefelman and his wife Janet work together to write and illustrate children's' books. The first effort on which they collaborated was Victoria House, a story about a young family that moved from a decaying Victorian mansion into an urban setting...
Anita Lucia Perella knew early on that she was different. The third of four children in one of the few Italian immigrant families in Littlehampton, Sussex (a fading Victorian beach resort her family dubbed "home of the newly wed and nearly dead"), she was treated like an alien by her classmates. "They never smelled garlic before we came," says Roddick. Her stepfather, who ran the first and only American-style diner in town, died when she was 10 -- a loss that was keener for Anita and her younger brother Bruno than they knew. Eight years later, their mother Gilda confessed...
...things that shaped the immortal mime -- his Victorian sentimentality (of which his passion for underage girls was the most obvious, least agreeable part), his pretense to intellectuality, the torments of his vast celebrity -- are only vaguely alluded to. These are tough topics, wrong for the form (and indulgent attitude) Attenborough has chosen. Robert Downey Jr., who plays Chaplin, might have been up to them, but this episodic film gives him only cautious scenes, not an incautious character, to play...
...treasures of Windsor Castle last week, it seemed a cruel metaphor for the events of this past year. Britain's House of Windsor is under fire in 1992 as + it has not been since 1936, the year Edward VIII abdicated the throne. The notion of the family monarchy, a Victorian-era invention that accorded a symbolic and public role to royal offspring and consorts as well as to the crown, is on the brink of collapse. None of the four children of Queen Elizabeth II has been able to sustain a stable marriage. Princess Anne has divorced and may remarry...
...boys, now 11 and 8. They also began swapping visits with their friends Bill and Hillary. The last time Bill Clinton stayed with Reich was in the spring of 1991, when President Bush was winning 80% approval ratings. Yet Clinton, chatting on the porch of Reich's big old Victorian home, nonetheless seemed determined to run against Bush. One reason, Clinton said, was to promote the ideas of investment in the future that were contained in The Work of Nations, which had just been published. A mutual friend, playing devil's advocate, raised several arguments why Clinton should...