Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Matthews' Gothic exterior resembles the set ofa horror movie and its dark interior hallways canbe a little spooky. But the wood-paneled rooms arenicely sized, and Matthews residents often turnthe hallways and stairwells into an arena forcreative dorm games. Matthews was renovated in1993. The renovations did not include elevators,and living on the top floor can be extraordinarilydifficult, although occupants are often in greatshape...
...waltz was held in the gothic comfort of the Adams House dining hall, but other houses have chosen more exotic locations...
With its abandoned buildings, sloping streets, dead-ends and lampposts, Charlestown manages to be Gothic with out having any Gothic architecture. The macabre fascinated H.P. Lovecraft who used Charlestown as a setting for his book, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward." The Charlestown Working Theatre's current production, "The Remnant," looks at the fictional Ward's paranormal life. His altered states of consciousness are detailed in scenes which possess the mystery and horror of a nightmare. By assaulting the senses through light and sound effects, "The Remnant" hypnotizes the audience into joining Ward in his insane quest...
...socially prominent antiques dealer who was tried four times for shooting and killing Danny Hansford, a Camaro-driving handyman and hustler. But the book is no typical true-crime thriller; it is as close to Paul Theroux as it is to Dominick Dunne. Populated by a townful of Southern Gothic characters, from patrician bon vivants like the polo-playing Harry Cram to Williams' canny, football-obsessed lawyer Sonny Seiler to local eccentrics like maid Gloria Daniels, who conducted tours of her employer's mansion, occasionally supplementing them with renditions of Stormy Weather, the book is a portrait of a gossipy...
...swimming pool of Court TV's Arthur Miller. A grotesque gaggle stars on its own Disney animated TV series. They're gargoyles--and for reasons no one can quite fathom they've become the hottest commodity to emerge from the Middle Ages since Gregorian chant. Though their scary Gothic ancestors patrolled the cathedrals of Europe, serving double duty as protectors from evil and divertors of rainwater, today's gargoyles are more likely to turn up as tchotchkes--pencil holders, bookends, and the like. They've also gone edible, in the form of Franco-American canned pasta (with and without meatballs...