Word: gothic
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...Road" and the "Yaddo Road" summarize all the best qualities of Dan Lang's work. The primitive flavor of Gaugin's palette and the firmly drawn, simplified outlines of Gothic stained-glass underlie his very contemporary notion of abstraction. The radically simple planes of color contain only the essentials of space and form...
Beauty in a Wart. Diirer was 23 when he made his first of several trips to Italy. There he saw the orderly beauties of Greco-Roman antiquity, heightened through the Renaissance eyes of Mantegna and Da Vinci. Their cool confidence in man vied with his apocalyptic Gothic attitudes. He never got over all of them, recorded a nightmare in 1525: "Many big waters fell from the firmament, with great violence and with enormous noise, and drowned the whole land." But he asserted the new idea that the visible world was the true subject...
...booming once again, its strategic location near major German population centers at last an advantage rather than a threat. Sleek high-rise apartments tower over half-timbered villages. Factory smokestacks loom above the countryside, famed for its dry Sylvaner and Riesling wines. Oil refineries have risen near the Gothic spire of Strasbourg's famed cathedral, and the Rhine port now serves as the Central European distribution center for the big South European pipeline from the Mediterranean. Since Alsatian resurgence began, 220 new plants have been set up, doubling sales of the province's industries to $1.6 billion...
...perverse master of the dark art of menace. Polanski's first English-language film, Repulsion at first glance looks like a case study of a fragile psychopath. At second glance, or as often as a moviegoer can bear to peek through his knotted fingers, it is a Gothic horror story, a classic chiller of the Psycho school and approximately twice as persuasive...
...pare sermons for compulsory chapel and ladle out doses of manly Christian advice to the spiritually downhearted. Today, he is likely to wear wrinkled chinos instead of a turned-around collar, read Playboy as well as Plato and center his operations in a coffeehouse rather than in a Gothic church. Says Methodist Chaplain Alfred Dale, of San Francisco State College, "I'm generally where the action...