Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scenes are political-family gothic that read as if Tennessee Williams had written them. While riding on the campaign trail, the congressional candidate and his wife get into a screaming match in the car. He punches the dashboard; she slaps the seat. At a stoplight, she suddenly leaps out, and the car roars away. In another scene, years later, a guest in the politician's home overhears him singing a lullaby to his one-year-old daughter: ``I want a div- or-or-or-orce. I want a div-or-or-or-orce.'' The Governor raises the subject of divorce...
...photographic images, produces one of the most delicately beautiful pieces in the show, "I told him that my mother's misfortune took up the space of dreams"-- Marguerite Duras II, (1195). More humorous is Ellen Rothenberg's pile of pink erasers, each printed with the word "GUILT," in Gothic lettering. Art Spiegelman, famous as the Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Maus, a cartoon retelling of the Holocaust, contributes sketches and studies...
...protagonist conceives passion for young member of opposite sex -- but that is merely plot. Musically, Sunset's real forebear is Evita. The angular, chromatic recitatives for Norma explicitly recall Eva Peron's egocentric ravings. If the music of the new show lacks Aspects' delicious subtleties and Phantom's gothic flamboyance, it still offers two of Lloyd Webber's best songs in With One Look and As If We Never Said Goodbye...
Lured by New Haven's low rents and spurred on by Yale's inflexible, expensive meal plans, students are abandoning the university's gothic spires for city apartments...
...genre's more gothic cases include that of an Atlanta woman who smothered four of her children, one each time her husband threatened to leave her. Her behavior has been ascribed to Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, in which mothers secretly make their children sick to win attention. Originally the authorities had concluded that the deaths were caused by SIDS...