Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land of the dead, where he reported that "pale fear got hold of me" as the spirits rose up to drink blood. Every ethnic group has spun folktales of the ungrateful dead. Even so, horror did not become a literary convention until the late 18th century, when the gothic novel described the exotic terrors of old feudal keeps. In the gaslight era, the supernatural took hold of the public imagination, and British authors quickly dominated the field. Their very names suggest creaking Victorian stairways, forbidden rooms and disembodied spirits: Montague Rhodes James, J.S. Le Fanu, Eden Phillpotts, Algernon Blackwood...
...very talented cast of character actors, including Academy Award-winner, F. Murray Abraham, as Bernardo Gui, a Spanish Inquisitor and William's nemesis. And while the cavernous abbey has none of the ornate, Florentine architecture we associate with religious structures, it's the perfect canvas for the Gothic faces who dwell there--monks with hunchbacks, bloated tumors, anemic skin and smudged features. No detail was spared on casting the extras...
...marchers were attempting to disrupt Schmidt's procession from the Gothic-style Sterling Memorial Library to Woolsey Hall...
...Busch-Reisinger, founded in 1903 and later supported by prominent benefactors including Aldophus Busch of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and his son-in-law, Hugo Reisinger, is considered the foremost museum of German art on this continent. The Gothic building, which boost a Flentrop organ and original arches, houses works by Walter Gropius and Lyonel Feininger as well as Renaissance and Medieval...
...year-old Gothic building, currently used primarily for large lectures in Sanders Theater and exams in the Great Hall, may be renovated inside to increase its possible uses, said Zeckhauser. "We want to make sure we are using it in the best way we can to recover costs" of the exterior renovations...