Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when young Peter Brandt put his signature on a Communist-front petition accusing the U.S. of atrocities in Viet Nam. This time Peter, 18, has teamed up with his young brother, Lars Brandt, 16, to play in a film version of Günter Grass's neo-Gothic novel, Cat and Mouse. The mousetrap is that Lars, as Joachim Mahlke, the adolescent hero of the story, appears in one scene wearing bathing trunks and twirling an Iron Cross, Germany's highest medal for bravery. Germans grumbled about the "tastelessness" of that little bit, as well as some explicitly...
Since those days, Janssen has reformed somewhat; he now concentrates on portraying Gothic horror instead of experiencing it. He lives in a crumbling Hamburg apartment house with his handsome blonde third wife, Verena, the wealthy granddaughter of one of Kaiser Wilhelm's last Chancellors, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, and their five-year-old son. Others may find his pictures macabre, but he maintains: "For me, whatever I do is not ugly, not horrible, not repulsive. I couldn't draw what I don't love...
Princeton men are complacent. They come to the grassy Gothic place ready to accept things as they find them...
...trouble in the house proves to be not single but multiple, and it is all wound up with the gothic flourish of an ambiguous murder. The prose in this first novel by Mary Ellin Barrett, daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, sometimes rises a little too high on its toes and ends up breathless. But the book is saved from the Venus flytrap of ladies' magazine fiction by its easy intimacy with the ambiance of those days of picnic baskets and tennis flannels. The author has a sophisticated sense of the tensions that show among even the most beautiful people...
...medieval tradition that aimed at letting art speak out the Gospel truth. The work spells out the Scriptures visually, spares earthen colors, such as ochers and umbers, to enhance the clashing confrontation, as in the cloaks, of liquidy greens and reds. The carved and gilded frames are showpieces of Gothic craftsmanship, but within the woodcarving can be seen classic marble columns, first tentative annunciation that the new spirit of the Renaissance was beginning to blow through German art. And the Virgin is no longer hieratic and remote; she is instead a distillation of young girlhood and Bavarian beauty...