Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...redesigned hundreds of legal forms and loan applications for such companies as Citibank, 3M and Pitney Bowes. Working with firms specializing in accounting, behavioral research and readability, Siegel & Gale came up with forms designed for the convenience of the taxpayer rather than the tax collector. The typeface is Franklin Gothic for the main heads, the same headline type used in this magazine. The text type is Century Schoolbook, a highly legible face that was developed more than 60 years ago. The designers use ample white space to give their work freshness and clarity. They have added a bright red color...
DIED. Dorothy Eden, 69, prolific writer and master of the gothic tale; of cancer; in London. Among the most popular of Eden's more than 30 romantic novels were The Vines of Yarrabee and Speak to Me of Love...
ITHACA, N.Y.--After two seasons on the road in Hanover and Cambridge, the Heptagonals returned to their traditional home at Cornell, and 850 enthusiastic fans filled gothic Barton Hall Saturday to watch the eight Ivy man's track teams, along with Army and heavy, go at is for the 35th straight year...
...Jamey Foster, "a unity of vision and a sharp eye for the contradictions within human beings." Jon Jory, whose Actors Theater of Louisville first produced Crimes of the Heart, is pleased that "Beth writes people rather than plots. She's writing what she knows. She imbibed the Southern gothic sensibility with her mother's milk." Evelyn Purcell, who will direct The Moon Watcher, is a kindred spirit; her documentary film Rush, about student bodies at Ole Miss, is a cartographer's view of Henleyland. Says Purcell: "It's because she writes for herself that her plays...
...reader concerned only with plot, the yield is relatively low. The pastoral is an ancient tradition. Small schools for the young daughters of the leisure classes have had more literary attention, certainly, than their numbers have called for. Freeman has missed no gothic twists here--ghost sightings, illicit trysts, sensual foreigners, even secret abortions...