Word: gothic
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...This is the scene Bryan C. Barnhill ’08 drove past on his way to The Game. It wasn’t Harvard Square, or even one of Yale’s gothic courtyards, but it wasn’t altogether unfamiliar...
...question: “Should we all have gone to Yale?” My 17-year-old self read this piece and scoffed at the possibility that anyone would choose New Haven over Cambridge. I had been to nerd camp at Yale and decided that I hated fake Gothic architecture, the flower lady who peddled outside Starbucks, and a campus centered on overpriced shops and Au Bon Pain...
...fading soap opera than a lurid plot twist. Unlike their glossy American counterparts, British soaps like the long-running, top-rated EastEnders traditionally aim for stolid social realism, depicting ordinary folk pursuing humdrum lives. Now, though, dwindling audiences are spurring EastEnders' producers to unleash implausible killers and gothic disasters on their workaday protagonists. In a recent plotline, a character was taken hostage by his deranged stepson and saw his wife shot as she came to his rescue...
After ten years of silence, Peter Høeg’s fifth novel “The Quiet Girl” hits Danish and international public alike in the form of a loud and eclectic pseudo-thriller. Labeled as post-modern, magical-realist, social realist, and gothic (to name but a few), dismissed by some as new-age pop philosophy while hailed by others as an astute criticism of civilization in general, it seems that the only agreement that can be reached is that Peter Høeg’s work is hard to place.In answer to accusations...
Chicago Architecture Foundation From the birthplace of the skyscraper come wooden miniatures (from $25.95) of the cake-slice Wrigley Building and the Gothic Tribune Tower - both built in the 1920s - as well as the John Hancock Center, above left, a squared-off, tapering tower, which wouldn't look out of place in Beijing. And architects don't just do buildings: for desktop tulips there's an elegant Frank Lloyd Wright vase in jade or nutmeg ($110). www.architecture.org...