Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from bland to bludgeon: Class of 1984. Mark Lester, who has put some zing into his earlier melodramas (Truck Stop Women, Stunts), here borrows from George Armitage's cult Gothic, Massacre at Central High, to create an adolescent colony as teeming and desolate as an American Gulag. The principal is a blinkered hypocrite; the biology prof (Roddy McDowall) teaches chromosomes at gunpoint. And the school toughs-moral crustaceans dressed in swastika T shirts and the very latest leather-are led by no ordinary psychopath. Stegman (Timothy Van Patten) is also a musical prodigy: as he directs a gang rape...
...June 11-24). Flashiest streak for the industry: the past six weeks, every one of which earned $100 million in the U.S. Moviegoers were still lining up to see Rocky III ($75 million in six weeks), Conan the Barbarian ($39 million in eight weeks), Spielberg's suburban gothic chiller Poltergeist ($39.5 million in five weeks), and the surprise hit of the spring, the basement-budget Porky's ($100 million in 16 weeks...
...hear Roger Angell read from his works. We did not leave enough time for the rather lengthy Green line ride, so by the time we trudged up Comm. Ave., the session had already started. As we approached Gasson Hall, we all noticed a striking sight: Visible in the rightmost gothic window of the stately church was a slouching, balding, bespectacled man speaking from the altar. Roger Angell was preaching baseball...
...Ozark Mountains. An almost transparent structure of mostly timber and glass, it seems to be one with the surrounding woods and rocks. The chapel's architect, E. Fay Jones of Fayetteville, Ark., who studied with Frank Lloyd Wright, describes it as a kind of reversal of gothic cathedral architecture. The trusses inside the structure form a repetitive, rhythmic lattice pattern as evocative as a Bach fugue...
...Gestapo in wimples. Among those destined to burn in hell are Roman Polanski, Big John Holmes, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. On Broadway and off, these glosses on Catholic dogma are raising smiles, nostalgic shudders and the occasional hackle, as young playwrights sculpt wicked ironies from the gothic fantasies of their parochial school youth. Last week two new "Catholic plays" joined the pair already on the New York boards. No doubt about it: nuns' stories are paving the Great White...