Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only ABC's Dark Shadows tapes as if every day were Friday. The 30-min ute show is TV's first gothic soaper (Monday through Friday, 4 p.m. E.D.T.) and the first to star a vampire. Ex plains one of the directors: "If the char acters sat around and talked to each other about vampires, you would turn people off. It's the actual vampirizing that makes the show." No doubt about it. Dark Shadows has put the bite on a rapidly-rising audience that now aver ages 15 million viewers a week. When Barnabas the Vampire...
Fractured French. From Inspector Clouseau to Carson McCullers' The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is a journey from comedy to tragedy, from fractured French to utter silence. As John Singer, a deaf-mute silverware engraver living in a small Dixie town, Arkin moves through a gallery of Southern gothic tragedy. A fellow mute (Chuck McCann) does violence to a store window, and is committed to a mental institution, where he dies. A Negro doctor who befriends Singer is racked with cancer, and has a hostile, hate-drugged daughter (Cicely Tyson...
Burgess's ingenious plot is couched in some of the most high-powered and imaginative language (including Russian, Arabic, Gothic, Latin, Spanish, and dialects) since Joyce. (A Clockwork Orange, Burgess's best-known work, is written in a hybrid argot of his own invention.) But Joyce had many voices and no one style; Burgess, for all the richness of his repertoire, writes in a monotone that is no more varied than his fixed point of view. Cleverness ("She breathed on him (though a young lady should not eat, because of the known redolence of onions, onions) onions."), hyperbole ("his insides...
...Anqer. Well aware of the underground challenge, the assembly chose as its theme "All Things New," and its opening ceremonies showed a temperately turned-on effort to bridge the gulf between the traditional and the revolutionary. As the richly robed churchmen filed into Uppsala's twin-spired Gothic cathedral, trumpeters, oboists, French horn and trombone players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read...
...became The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming), is a careful tailor of dialogue and characterization. But by laboriously presenting stop-action, caseworker-like descriptions of his characters' psychological past, he unfortunately produces a general air more clinical than criminal, a climax that is more Gestalt than gothic, a final effect that evokes a quiet Oh, yes, instead of a stricken...