Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sargent showing her in a very low cut black dress, that is the most characteristic. Upset at the comments the dress caused, Mr. Gardner asked his wife to hide the picture during his lifetime; she agreed. After his death, however, she put it prominently in a corner of the Gothic Room and the picture remains there. Her stately figure rising against a red and gold tapestry, Mrs. Gardner gazes out on the museum she so carefully created...
...supposed that a Gothic chapter house full of Renaissance prelates was less full of worldly guile than Goyen's illiterate, self-certified Savonarolas in their rented temples. It is just that they are more obvious; no canon law inhibits their behavior and no lapidary creed slows down their freewheeling extempore theology...
...could be to dilettantism what Jean Harlow was to sex. She has kept elephants as pets. She plays with porpoises. She is, moreover, the sort of symbol around which dilettantes would choose to rally. She is rich and beautiful, with auburn hair and sparkling brown eyes. Her chest is gothic. She has dabbled in marriage with Lance Reventlow and dallied on the arm of Frank Sinatra...
...facades is dead straight; the exterior is cold, unadorned and broken only by tiny windows; the dome of the basilica is enclosed as if within a fortress. Thus at a stroke, Philip ended the tradition of exuberantly ornamented Spanish architecture known as the plateresque, a hodgepodge of Gothic, Moorish and early Renaissance motifs...
...second book Grass has turned to another grotesque-a gawky adolescent named Joachim Mahlke who is afflicted by a quivering excrescence of flesh over his Adam's apple. But if Grass still views life largely as a kind of Gothic sideshow, he permits himself, as he did not in the earlier book, a saving touch of human compassion. As a dwarf who had seceded from the adult world in order to survive in it, Oskar remained a skeptical spectator of absurdity. Through the muted and melancholy chronicle of Mahlke's brief life, Grass seems to say that deformed...