Word: gothic
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...Jack Gardner's drab, geodesic, erratic building, which finally opened to the public after her death in 1924, is composed of antique fragments imported from Italy (consisting of balustrades, columns, Gothic windows), of paintings (many Italian masterpieces selected by Harvard's most famous art student, Bernard Berenson) and of manuscripts (from Dante's Inferno to Keats's poetry). She took an interest in young musicians as well as their music, giving aspiring players a chance to perform private concerts before their New York debuts...
Action Director Don Siegel (Coogan's Bluff) changes his pace in The Beguiled, a Southern gothic horror story that is the most scarifying film since Rosemary birthed her satanic baby...
...must not suppose that all these ingredients are conjoined in cold blood. The best genre writers, like Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney, identify with their heroines. They also identify with their audience. It is not entirely coincidence, therefore, that like the Bronte sisters many gothic writers are products of a sequestered, lonely childhood with plenty of time for fantasy...
...came to Harvard two weeks ago to show his films and talk to students in the Visual Studies Department, seemed profoundly uncomfortable when asked to introduce his works. As the Carpenter Center seems out of place in the midst of its red-brick, ivied, neo-classic or neo-gothic architectural neighbors (prompting the famous remark of Classics Professor John Huston Finley: "It looks like two pianos copulating!"), Frank felt out of place being even remotely in the vicinity of a school. "Colleges are giant hatcheries," said Frank. "Now that I have come here, today, this is the first time...
What follows is a bizarre and Gothic tale. Zarkin's new star becomes Lylah not only in appearance but in personality, thereby causing the director to make the same emotional errors in handling the new Lylah as he had with the original. Of course, these personal conflicts between Zarkin and his star-lover turn out to have more than a little to do with the original Lylah's strange death-and, unsurprisingly, history repeats itself...