Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glass art may in the past have been stifled by its traditions: Gothic, Renaissance, Victorian, art nouveau, Tiffany, art deco. Today artists and artisans, students and professionals are creating a distinctively American form, moving away from mere decoration and drawing eclectically from the other visual arts. As Artist-Editor Fred Abrams writes in Glass magazine, a journal for artists and craftsmen: "Glass is the most beautiful and magical art medium in the world,... and we have only begun to explore its possibilities and potential." To which its admirers and practitioners can only add amen, translucent tomorrows and "gret joye...
Barefoot, in an orange safran robe and with a short pony tail dangling from an otherwise bald head, a Hare Krishna devotee seems out of place opening the large oak door of a sober Victorian brownstone house on Commonwealth Ave. in Boston. Krishna devotees are commonly seen chanting and dancing on New York's Fifth Ave., or asking for donations in Harvard Square dressed in Santa suits around Christmas time. But this devotee stands on the threshold of Boston's Temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), three blocks from the Ritz-Carlton...
...seen in a memorable swimsuit ad for Cole of California in Seventeen. "There was gentleness that came through. Her face was almost Victorian," recalls the stylist for the session, Marion Samerjan. "You just had to fall in love with her." West Coast Talent Agent Nina Blanchard saw the photo and offered Cheryl a contract...
What becomes a legend most? The lace-trimmed cotton knickers displayed by Cockney Comic Marty Feldman once belonged to Queen Victoria. A collector of 19th century furniture and art, Feldman figured that nothing would be more Victorian than the royal underpants, so when he spotted them at a London auction he laid out a bloomin' $320 for the bloomers. Besides, patriotic to the nines, he "wanted to preserve part of England's heritage and to keep an Englishman's hands on Queen Victoria's drawers." She would not have been amused...
...shirt and cowboy boots, he frequently travels around the state with his wife Jayne, 31, pumping hands, slapping backs and exchanging small talk, of which he is a master. He claims that "being Governor is three jobs rolled into one." He occasionally finds time for his hobby of collecting Victorian antiques, but he has virtually given up racquetball, allowing his weight to slide up another 20 Ibs., to 220. To enhance his national image, he has hired Washington Political Consultants Douglas Bailey and John Deardourff, and his critics darkly hint that even the Thompson baby due this summer was programmed...