Word: addamsish
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...Haunted Mansion, a Charles Addamsish house inhabited by an ear-shattering band of ghosts, ghouls, poltergeists and even a singing tombstone...
Plunked down in midtown, Wayne in every way is the heart of polyglot Detroit. The chaotic, 80-acre campus borders two auto-choked expressways and the city's two finest museums. Its buildings include Charles Addamsish mansions that once housed Detroit's wealthy. Its students fill the classrooms 14 hours a day, and some of them have to meet in a garage. Yet everywhere loom the cool creations of famed Detroit Architect Minoru Yamasaki (TIME, Nov. 17, 1958), who is turning ugly Wayne into a graceful "superblock" of imaginative buildings...
...would expect from her family background. As she herself says, "My case is in Freud." Dominating the household is Laurel's grandmother, Mrs. St. Maugham, who typifies a way of life that is aristocratic, self-indulgent, warped, and gone forever. Her eccentricities, together with those of the Charles Addamsish butler, are not so well justified by the playwright. But still, all the characters are tastefully and humorously drawn, without the slightest resort to the burlesque...
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