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WOMEN’S VICTORIAN COFFEE...
...women played host to a regatta for the first time in weeks, competing in the Women’s Victorian Coffee Urn on the Charles River on Saturday. Sunday’s winds proved to be too much, ending the regatta after just a day’s events. Harvard was one of 17 schools competing, racing 16 times on the way to a second-place finish, seven points behind Navy...
...long history, which means its subjects have developed an ambiguous self-consciousness about their participation in it. But that only adds depth to the films, which are now being duplicated by other hands in other countries. Watching these lives unfold has been for Apted something like "living in a Victorian novel"--one that he says "becomes more intimate and emotional" for him (as it does for us) as the years accumulate. --By Richard Schickel...
...gender and sexuality have little to do with each other are misinformed. Can we really say, for example, that women’s suffrage has “little, if anything” to do with sexuality when arguments both for and against women’s suffrage implicated Victorian images of “womanly virtue,” derived from the notion that women were “passionless,” asexual beings? Conversely, can we really say that “same-sex marriage” is “well understood without discussion of gender...
...really understood the play, and it stimulated my imagination so much I knew I could do a good job with it. As I was reading the play I thought of a lot of people I knew who would be good in roles. The play centers on Lady Windermere, a Victorian woman who leads a perfect life until receiving some unexpected news from a neighbor. Though Ritchie’s play is not an adaptation, she does put a spin on the time period, changing the setting from the 1800s to the late 1950s. A lot of the ideals...