Word: gothic
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Over at Mory's, the tables were empty except for a few local alumni quietly eating their suppers. But the Cross Campus Library. Yale's antiseptic new reserve book library, buried windowless beneath the dying elms and the gothic stone of the Yale campus, was packed with undergraduates grinding away. One glassy-eyed student peered up from his calculus, and stared in disbelief at the Crimson reporter who, had inquired what the Harvard-Yale game meant to him. He answered "big fucking deal...
...chief forte as a director has been his handling of theatrical effect. "Women in Love" was audacious and over-ripe in imagery, and over-fancy in cinematography--lavish in caricature and lacking in precise meaning. Lawrence's form had been tortured into the shape of Russell's own Gothic sex fancies. And it made as offensive, though visually awesome, film. With "The Music Lovers," a biography of Peter Tchak ovsky, Russell's glory, felling reached operatic heights that could at least balance out the ludicrous hamminess and involuted romanticism of his film. In The Devils, the case of Father Urbain...
Perhaps because she is so methodical, Marilyn Durham seems rather beguilingly unaware of her book's freshness. She likes to call it a western gothic and says that the squaw Cat Dancing is "an Indian Rebecca - there to give the hero a Past." She loves reading trash, has never met an Augusta Evans fan who didn't become a soulmate...
...four-acre set cost $500,000 -more than some entire movies in today's budget-squeezed Hollywood. Next to the plaster mountains are two 40-ft. waterfalls, four glistening pools, and an 80-ft.-high Greco-Roman-Byzantine-Gothic-Sung-Khmer Lamasery that owes more to Hilton the hotelier than Hilton the novelist. "It's like having a dream you can walk into any time you want to," gushes one of the Columbia Pictures secretaries who spend their lunch hours or coffee breaks on the set trying to catch glimpses of a cast that includes Charles Boyer, John...
Thomas Tryon, a onetime actor (The Cardinal), has written the screenplay from his own bestselling novel, The Other, a gushy gothic mystery set in the early '30s. The main characters are twin boys (Chris and Martin Udvarnoky), who fly about their New England farm playing magical games, encouraged by their grandmother Ada (Uta Hagen), a transplanted Russian who repeats adages like "God does not mean that we miss too much what he takes from us," and "As we came from the earth, so are we returned to it." Grandmother needs all her homely folk wisdom, for her daughter Alexandra...