Word: gothic
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Pale Glimmer. The world will miss her as a poet, critic, biographer, social lioness, defender of art, warrior against Philistia. But above all, it will miss her as a great English eccentric. She was 6 ft. tall, with a haunted, Gothic face framed by wimples and toques; her long, narrow hands glimmered palely against brocade and velvet gowns. If at times she seemed to have created a lifelong pose for herself, it was a graceful pose of uncommon distinction. "I don't whine," she once said. "That's why everybody thinks I am enormously rich and have...
...Bearzi used the waste-mold process, in which the plaster is broken off, only one set of duplicates was made. In 1948 the scrubbed originals were rehinged at the famed San Giovanni Baptistery. Five years ago. San Francisco's Protestant Episcopal' Grace Cathedral, under construction in traditional Gothic style, commissioned the completion of the duplicate doors Now the replicated Ghibertis have a godly home...
...often troublesome. Although Catholic publishers have rushed into print new altar missals for the priest, laymen will have to fumble with leaflets and mimeographed texts of the prayers in English. The new Mass should be celebrated on a plain altar by a priest facing the congregation; many pseudo-Gothic churches have ornate high altars fixed to the wall-a situation that calls for either drastic architectural surgery or the unesthetic installation of an additional altar...
Anouilh puts his characters into wigs, and they traverse the centuries back to the French Terror of 1793. The play begins ten years after the end of World War II. Maxime (Charles D. Gray), a rich aristocratic rightist, decides to hold a wig party in a Gothic catacomb of a cellar. All his guests are to come as leading figures of the Revolution. Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor...
Inside the castle's vast Gothic Vladislav Hall, 294 Deputies of the tame Communist Parliament were gathered to elect a new President. For weeks there had been hints that dour Antonin Novotny, 59, who for seven years has been both President and Communist Party chief, might lose the presidency, possibly as the first step to complete oblivion. Once a Stalinist who survived by ruthlessly killing off his rivals, Novotny had become a slavish follower of the deposed Nikita Khrushchev. During the recent Moscow ceremonies celebrating the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, Novotny was noticeably absent from the Communist lineup...