Word: gothic
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...Anqer. Well aware of the underground challenge, the assembly chose as its theme "All Things New," and its opening ceremonies showed a temperately turned-on effort to bridge the gulf between the traditional and the revolutionary. As the richly robed churchmen filed into Uppsala's twin-spired Gothic cathedral, trumpeters, oboists, French horn and trombone players scattered throughout the church sounded a hauntingly dissonant hymn by Danish Composer Per Norgard worthy of John Cage. Seated together with Sweden's octogenarian King Gustaf VI Adolf, was another secular guest, Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda. The prayer was read...
...became The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming), is a careful tailor of dialogue and characterization. But by laboriously presenting stop-action, caseworker-like descriptions of his characters' psychological past, he unfortunately produces a general air more clinical than criminal, a climax that is more Gestalt than gothic, a final effect that evokes a quiet Oh, yes, instead of a stricken...
Shock & Excitement. Sprinkled throughout the publications are first, tentative works that show a glimmer of the authors' future power. Double Dealer, published in the 1920s in New Orleans, contains the early poems, stories and criticism of William Faulkner. His gothic eloquence is much in evidence, as is a penchant for backward-running sentences that caught on with other young experimental writers as well. One of his characters, a priest, rhapsodizes...
...some people really think that Nan Wood Graham posed for the bikini and topless versions of American Gothic, she should be happy to pay Johnny Carson and Playboy magazine $9,000,000 in appreciation...
...make a novel-sized picture, Cheever's skeletal story had to be fleshed out. Scenarist Eleanor Perry and her director-husband Frank (who made David and Lisa) have done so by turning the gothic into the baroque. A little boy cannot be a symbol of innocence by himself; he must be playing a pipe like Pan. To give Merrill's mental anguish an exterior, a vanilla-colored, bikini-clad girl companion is added. To increase the audience's anguish, Merrill is made to out his hand on her stomach and quote The Song of Solomon: "Thy belly...