Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blitz Campaign. Nevertheless, nothing clicked. "Munster Mansion," their old, 23-room Gothic home in Newport, R.I., became Bleak House. During the winter, they left their driveway unshoveled to discourage bill collectors. When their credit ran out on heating oil, they chopped up furniture to build a fire. One weekend they ended up with nothing in the house to eat except chocolate and marshmallows. Bud figured that promotion, transportation and the cost of musical instruments had put him $100,000 in debt. Just before panic set in, a New York talent management firm lined them up with MGM Records. Now their...
...MOTHER'S HOUSE. Out of a modern-Gothic tale of innocence and evil, Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) has created an adult morality play with the aid of seven children, each an accomplished scene stealer...
Promise & Peril. It is because artists are convinced that the great civic monuments of the future will not be pallid mitations of Greek, Gothic or Renaissance sculpture that they are now boldy taking their huge, industrially produced works to the public. It is a moment dizzying with promise and fraught with peril. For novelty quickly washes away, and bigness for its own »ake becomes merely ponderous. The reason why so much critical attention and acclaim is focused on Smith's work at the present is that, even in mock-up t has the quality of permanence. His .culptures...
...Duke University, through tentative years as a part-time manuscript reader for a New York publisher, Styron kept turning back to Nat. "The melodramatic side attracted me first," he says, "which is why I waited. If I had written it as a younger man, it really would have been gothic...
...Mother's House is a modern Gothic tale of innocence and evil that takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture somewhere in a London suburb. In her darkened bedroom lies Mother, mortally ill, the heart and guiding hand of seven boys and girls ranging in age from three to 16. The film begins at "Mothertime," the family's daily sunset gathering around her big brass bed for Bible reading and counseling. As the children arrive, Mother dies...