Word: gothic
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...MOTHER'S HOUSE. Out of a modern-Gothic tale of innocence and evil, Producer-Director Jack Clayton (Room at the Top) has created an adult morality play with the aid of seven children, each an accomplished scene stealer...
Died. Carson McCullers, 50, vibrant voice of love and loneliness in the Southern novel; of a stroke, following 45 days in a coma; in Nyack, N.Y. In five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until...
...Mother's House is a modern Gothic tale of innocence and evil that takes place in a penumbral pile of Victorian architecture somewhere in a London suburb. In her darkened bedroom lies Mother, mortally ill, the heart and guiding hand of seven boys and girls ranging in age from three to 16. The film begins at "Mothertime," the family's daily sunset gathering around her big brass bed for Bible reading and counseling. As the children arrive, Mother dies...
...that pictures too could be printed in much the same way led E.S. to experiment. He may have started simply by making studies for goldsmith work. Some of his prints, indeed, seem to be design patterns for chalices and monstrances. But he went on to fashion in copper a Gothic world in microcosm...
This time the setting is California, and those who retain some literary standards in today's bull market will note the marked inferiority of the local products to Genet's gothic...