Word: victorianism
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...minute dispatches from the sexual wars, and the news is not good for either side. The men, selfish and distracted, bolt at the first hint of that dread word, commitment. The women work at being hip and wary but are as overmastered by virility as any Victorian maiden ("With his touch, the will seemed to drain out of her"). Susan Minot, who made a notable debut with her 1986 novel Monkeys, has a laser instinct for the clinching detail and the giveaway phrase. She can summon descriptive power when she wants it ("Clouds rose up, golden, fisted, dwarfing the islands...
...many hidden elements in his life." In the beginning Henry speaks to his long-lost son slowly, with wide eyes and grand gestures, as if Indy were a child in need of gentle remedial education. "I was bound to have fun with the role of a gruff, Victorian Scottish father," Connery says of Henry (remember, the Jones family hails from Utah). "And have fun I did -- so much so that I told Harrison, 'If you give me all the jokes, you'll really have to work for your scenes...
...Robinson is after more than black humor. He wants us to see this tormented body as a metaphor for a tormented body politic; the wildly successful British advertising business may be to the Thatcherian age what imperialism was to the Victorian. But here Robinson sets down his hot satirical lance and slaps a soppy poultice of preachment onto the end of his movie. It proves to be a 19th century home remedy for an ailment he has convinced us may be curable only by more up-to-date and radical means...
...fact, many junior professors say that Nord's case is a classic example of the flaws in Harvard's tenure review process. Nord, the author of two books on Victorian literature, has an impressive resume of Harvard experience. Head tutor of the English Department for several years, she sat on the Faculty Council for three years and was also a member of the Committees on Degrees in Women's Studies and History and Literature...
...fill out the roster of voiceless messengers from Walker, there are a host of stereotypical minor characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter...