Word: gothic
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...Chinese tourists a little taste of Europe closer to home. Its developer, Shenzhen OCT Sanzhou Investment, has sunk nearly $450 million into the park's 2,200 acres (890 hectares). Located on a crystal-clear man-made lake, the centerpiece is a 300-room, five-star hotel with a Gothic cathedral lobby and an Austrian chef. The drive for authenticity is relentless: last summer an alpine songfest even brought yodelers to the resort. You can tour the property aboard an antique railroad that circles it, or view it from the highest summit--some 50 ft. (15 m) above--before plunging...
...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...