Word: spenser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charged, visionary realm atremble with religious longings and debate. Privets are shaped like sperm whales. Inns are kept by witches. Women ask each other in passing, "What do you think of the afterlife?" Your guide through this God-racked wilderness is a classically captivating heroine, Una Spenser, drawn equally to storms and speculations...
...retreated from human contact "manye hundred yeres ago," but their popular life continued to be irrepressible. Shakespeare is full of them--A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest. They pullulate as sylphs in Pope's Rape of the Lock; they appear in the verses of Drayton, Herrick, Milton, Spenser, Coleridge, Shelley and Blake. Indeed, whenever national origins were celebrated under the aegis of the Romantic movement, with its passion for the primitive and antiquarian, there the fairies (a.k.a. trolls, elves, pixies, leprechauns, peris) would...
...addition to such current shows, re-runs of NBC's "St. Elsewhere," ABC's "Spenser for Hire" and MTV's "Real World VI" offer viewers glimpses...
...Carol & Ted & Alice (ABC) S.W.A.T. (ABC) Soap (ABC) Tabitha (ABC) Vega$ (ABC) Gavilan (NBC) Spenser: For Hire (ABC) American Dreamer (NBC) Crossroads (ABC) It Had to Be You (CBS) The Lazarus Man Vital Signs (ABC) Love Boat: The Next Wave...
...panties pulled at, genitalia caught artfully winking out of bathing suits. In order to remind us that this is art and not, say, a file on the hard drive of some about-to-be-arrested principal, the photos are captioned with musings on adolescent sexuality from literary folk like Spenser ("Her nipples like young blossomed jessamine"), Dryden ("Young am I and yet unskilled") and, most appallingly, Anne Frank ("Am I only 14? Am I really still a silly little schoolgirl?"). One photo of a pert but defiant-looking young thing is labeled with an uncredited "Ne touchez pas." Another reads...