Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prize is a 144-year-old Victorian ewer fashioned from 134 oz. of British silver. The ornate vessel happens to be bottomless -- a fitting metaphor for a race whose victors could wind up paying more than half a million dollars an ounce for their trophy. For the bankers, industry barons and one drapery manufacturer who are battling through the semifinal rounds off San Diego this week, the 28th America's Cup competition is not just a matter of money. It is a spiritual quest that combines courage and seamanship with hubris and high technology. Yet deep pockets seem...
...Disney style need not be seen as the apogee of American culture; it can illuminate, it can suffocate, it can buoy or cloy. But when the Disney Imagineers get it right, they get it big. Euro Disney's Disneyland Hotel, the Imagineers' pink Victorian palace, boasts a giant Mickey Mouse clock and, at night, thousands of light bulbs that trace the spine of every ornate gable and cupola. The capacious lobby, with its 40-ft. ceiling, beckons you to collapse into its deep sofas and get toasty at the mammoth fireplace. In the guest rooms, a sculpture of Tinkerbell graces...
Some have critters on them -- a snail crawling round the base, or a worried- looking frog leaning backward; one piece, Blind Sea Turtle Cup, 1968, is borne on the back of a turtle laboriously crawling its way across a sandbox. Yet curiously enough, they look mysterious rather than cute. Victorian potters like Mintons produced a plethora of whimsical, curate's-joke animal majolica, laden with cows and sheep and bees and other homely creatures; the surface of earlier French Palissy ware was encrusted with reptiles and insects to the point where the plate became an unusable plaque...
...your academic palate desires further nourishing, we also offer seminars in such disciplines as Romantic literature and culture, psychoanalysis and culture, civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome, eighteenth-century literature and culture, Renaissance studies, Victorian literature and culture, visual representation and cultural history, women in the Renaissance and Reformation, early modern cultural corssings and writing biography...
...staff members had begun to wonder about his future last Wednesday, when the candidate seemed lackluster during appearances in Connecticut following his stinging defeats in the Rust Belt. Tsongas publicly pledged to fight on, but his doubts were growing. That evening at his Victorian home in Lowell, Mass., he agonized about his future with his wife Niki; his campaign manager and best friend, Dennis Kanin; and fund raiser Nicholas Rizzo. Kanin told him he would need at least $1.5 million to be competitive in New York. The money wasn't there, and the campaign debt was approaching...