Word: gothic
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...production duly provided a blinding cobalt blue sky against which was ranged a semicircle of knights in dazzling silver mail. The oak tree where King Heinrich holds court was reduced to a circular cluster of painted branches hung high over the stage. The castle itself was a fringe of Gothic-stylized overhangs...
There is a tale making the slow rounds about the Art of Henry James. James, it goes, constructed a great Gothic Cathedral of his craft. Beneath the arches and between the pews our heels clatter and our voices echo. But upon arriving at the altar (so says the story) we discover a dead...
There is nothing heavy about Bob Preston's Music Man. Feathery-footed, nimble-fingered, he is brassy, sassy and seemingly inexhaustible. Setting his style in his first big scene, he pounces on River City, peopled by folk straight out of Grant Wood's famed painting, American Gothic (one farm couple, in fact, gives a hilarious imitation, pitchfork and all, of the pair in the painting). River Cityans are high-minded, self-righteous...
...create his windows for Metz Cathedral, installed earlier this year, Octogenarian Jacques Villon had all the elements available to the glassmasters of 13th century Chartres, and more. The soft radiance of medieval glass, coming from imperfections that fractured the light, was duplicated by hand craftsmanship. The gothic spectrum was expanded by modern chemistry to include an endless range of intermediate tones. But the laborious process of cutting glass to the pattern of the cartoon, painting in details with an enamel of metallic oxides and ground glass, baking it, and finally assembling it with strips of lead is almost unchanged. Villon...
...lined up against Speaker Sam Rayburn and the Congress' Commission for the Extension of the Capitol (remodel it). Current status: inactive, with Capitol Architect J. George Stewart authorized to begin alterations, but no contracts let. ¶ Walnut Wood, the n 2-year-old Gothic Revival mansion in Bridgeport, Conn. (TIME, Oct. 21), designed by igth century Architect Alexander Jackson Davis. It became a hot political issue in last year's mayoralty race, apparently won a stay of execution when Democratic candidate Samuel J. Tedesco won on a save-the-mansion ticket, was doomed again by Winner Tedesco when...