Word: victorians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TURN OF THE SCREW (Showtime, debuting Aug. 12, 10 p.m. EDT). Amy Irving stars as the Victorian governess with a ghost problem in this new version of Henry James' famous novella. The hour-long drama launches Shelley Duvall's new series, Nightmare Classics...
...addition to the screenplay for M. Butterfly, which Hwang will write himself, he is working on three other films: a TV movie for PBS, which he will also direct, about a love affair between an FBI agent and the daughter of a man he hounded to death; "a Victorian rock musical about Oscar Wilde"; and a semiadventure set in Tibet. For the stage, he and Glass hope to adapt Andre Malraux's novel of revolutionary China in the 1920s, Man's Fate, and Hwang is also writing what he opaquely terms a "multicultural farce...
...nearly the size of Switzerland. "Grant was the last mountain man, and Kohrs the first cattle baron," says Lyndel Meikle, a park ranger who has spent twelve years studying the National Historic Site. When the Park Service took over in 1972, the 23-room ranch house was festooned with Victorian trappings and family photographs, just as it had been almost a century before. It still is. So far, curators have cataloged 11,000 items, including a wagon Kohrs used to take his family on a 7 1/2-week sojourn to Yellowstone...
South Dakota, North Dakota and Montana are celebrating their centennials with rodeos, cattle drives, river regattas and folk fests, luring visitors westward to rediscover the nation's astonishingly recent past. Wagon trains cross South Dakota, Victorian trappings grace a 19th century cattle ranch, and weekend powwows on the range continue all summer long...
...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...