Word: gaslit
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...expensively furnished as the austere eminence for which it is named. A sentimental saga of class war in the early IQOOS, its only sunlit moments occur when the plot and the famed habitat of San Francisco's 400 are abandoned and the film goes slumming in the gaslit environs of the Barbary Coast, a region by now as familiar to most cinemaddicts as their own backyards...
...Gaslit Years. He grew up in a New York which remains only in tintypes-a city of cobblestoned streets, red horsecars, gaslit saloons, Bowery sluggers and bowler hats...
Since the late great Lillian Nordica's gaslit heyday (1890-1910) U.S. woman's weight has dwindled. One result : a scarcity of great U.S. Wagnerian sopranos. Today few U.S. women singers have the beef and brawn that helped Nordica and her famous U.S. contemporaries (Olive Fremstad,* Emma Eames, etc.) to shout down batteries of Wagnerian trumpets and trombones...
Angel Street. Suave torture in a gaslit Victorian parlor (TIME...
Love (blonde, queenly Alexis Smith) and the facts of Corbett's life are allowed to interfere only slightly in Pugilist Flynn's career, but fans will not complain. They can see oldtime titans destroy each other with bare knuckles in gaslit, neolithic exhibitions of carnage-under-contract. Gentleman Jim's footwork is a joy to behold (and is beheld from all camera angles). The pictured versions of his classic bouts with Joe Choynski, Jake Kilrain, et al. seem, to modern eyes, even to improve on the originals...