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Word: gothic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Davenport College will present the live band "Cinema" somewhere within their gothic exterior. Georgian Colonial interior confines starting at 9:30 p.m. Admission at both these parties...

Author: By Bruce K. Mcmeekin, | Title: In Search of the Perfect Post-Game Party | 11/19/1981 | See Source »

...winds whipped around Gdansk's 14th century gothic town hall last week, but the real storm was within. Lech Walesa, 38, faced one of the toughest challenges to his leadership of Solidarity, Poland's independent trade union federation. The occasion: a meeting of Solidarity's 107-member national commission. The task: to react to Walesa's announcement that he would join in an unprecedented tripartite summit meeting with Poland's Premier, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp. The meeting would consider the country's explosive political and economic plight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Convoking the Three Estates | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...gnawed by self-doubt. She had a heartfelt romance once but skittered away from it in fear and put her emotions in a deep freeze. The kind of event that nails her hysterically to her sun-drenched kitchen wall and illustrates Henley's predilection for bizarre Southern Gothic extravagance is the death of her horse Billy Boy. Her pet since childhood, Billy Boy has recently been struck by lightning. To top that calamity, Old Granddaddy has been hospitalized with "blood vessels popping in his brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Southern Sibs | 11/16/1981 | See Source »

...swathed in darkness. The carefully sculptured garden becomes a foreboding place, a jungle, at dawn. The shadows don't disappear in the sunlight, for much of the intrigue occurs in the silver blue of early morning. Such mysteriousness gives The Haunting of M the patina of a well-made gothic movie. And like many horror tales, the Haunting of M revolves around a headstrong heroine and a vengeful ghost...

Author: By Leigh A. Jackson, | Title: Being and Nothingness | 11/4/1981 | See Source »

INVERSIONS is a book you can judge by its cover. At the top is the book's title, written in an ornate, gothic-looking script. At the bottom, in the same script, is the author's name. Scott Kim. Now turn the book upside-down--the cover is unchanged. It still says "inversions" and Scott Kim." Someone has gone and figure, out a way to write the book's title so it spells the author's name upside-down...

Author: By Michael W. Miller, | Title: Trick or Treat | 10/23/1981 | See Source »

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