Word: victorians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Inspector records the four days this lamentable investigation takes, and during most of them, Australian-born Peter Carey is at the top of his form. Best known for Oscar and Lucinda (1988), an inspired account of a pair of star-crossed Victorian lovers, Carey specializes in comic compulsiveness, the obsessions that lonely people in underpopulated landscapes create to give some center to their lives. These fantasies seldom lead to anything but trouble and unexpected consequences. Gran Catchprice's desire to destroy what she and her late husband have built seems understandable, given her original expectations: "The only thing...
...happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits into and improves a campus blessed with distinguished buildings, is among Stern's best work. It is Richardsonian (the arches, the churchlike massing) but not slavishly old-fashioned, and the jaunty bits (the eyebrow dormers and the tower) mitigate any neo-Victorian lugubriousness...
...happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits into and improves a campus blessed with distinguished buildings, is among Stern's best work. It is Richardsonian (the arches, the churchlike massing) but not slavishly old-fashioned, and the jaunty bits (the eyebrow dormers and the tower) mitigate any neo-Victorian lugubriousness...
Gilligan has been criticized for what Pulit zer Prize-winning author Susan Faludi, in her recent book, Backlash, calls "Victorian echoes...
...1870s an influential movement, based on the medieval craft guilds, managed to overthrow the "gigantic weariness" of Victorian design. Philosophers and artisans worked together, raising tables and chairs, textiles, kitchenware -- even fireplace ornaments -- to the realm of art. Their achievements still glow in this profuse and discerning history...