The prohibition against splitting infinitives (the preposition "to" followed by a verb) comes from a period when lovers of English wanted it to better mimic Latin, in which infinitives cannot be split.
Courtroom scenes aside, is "Pemberley" a chance for period-piece lovers to watch women in Empire-waist dresses float down the gorgeous stairways of a stately home?
During a classic period for Formula One lovers, the sight of the four great men wrestling for supremacy throughout the 1986 season brings a warm feeling of nostalgia to the heart, catapulting those of us old enough back to those heady days.
Some reviewers sneer at "heritage theatre", just as some music lovers scorn period instruments.
Another period piece about adulterous lovers, "Empire" won Mr. Oshima the directing prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
In "Blue Valentine," we never actually saw the hinge — the instant, or the indefinable period, at which the lovers' lives swivelled from a pleasure to a grind.
These have been dark times for lovers of period pomp since Downton bowed out on Boxing Day, leaving 10 million of us bereft, and many bamboozled by the fast-forwarded War And Peace on the other side.
Open June to September and some weekends outside this period One for animal lovers; there are more than 200 species in this central western park, including the rare Spanish lynx.
Overall, we should be on the verge of a happy period for those wine lovers who, for one reason or another, must be careful about what they pay for each bottle.
His movies in that period included "The Vampire Lovers" (1970), a tale of revenge and bloodlust that was especially notable for its two nude scenes; and "Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde" (1971), a campy adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic that adds a soup? of erotic intrigue by making the good doctor's evil alter ego a woman.
