Word: gothic
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...Stalin's draftsmen spread their efforts over acres of ground, but in reaching for height, they were unable to avoid imitating at least one American skyscraper. The Moscow vysotnye zdania or "tall buildings," bear a marked resemblance to New York's 1913 Woolworth building, but to Woolworth Gothic the Soviet architects added adornments borrowed from classical sources, and some of their own devising. Thus all eight vysotnye carry tall spires mounting garlanded Red Stars and as many Doric and Romanesque pilasters, rococo arches, turrets, flying buttresses, rooftop pergolas, asparagus-shaped domes, gingerbread plaques and ferro-concrete statuary...
After Stalin's Woolworth Gothic comes the age of Khrushchev Concrete...
Couturier went on to explain that today's sacred art is "constantly repeating the old styles of past centuries, slavishly rebuilding romanesque, gothic or renaissance churches, never utilizing modern forms until they are already outmoded-or else employing them artificially, in ... borrowings that lack any spontaneous spark of life. For more than a century, imagination-the true innovator of all new forms-has remained completely outside of, and alien to, the Church . . . The only great Christian artist alive, Rouault, had to wait until he reached the age of eighty before seeing one of his works admitted to a church...
...Paris last week, the very latest word in fashion was that Christian Dior had gone gothic, and brought out a brassière-girdle-corset to shift bosoms about to conform to the new, flatter look. Said a Dior artisan of the bustline: "The main idea is to bring the bosom-which used to center some 25 to 26 centimeters (9.8 to 10.2 inches) from the shoulder-up to 19 or 20 centimeters (7.4 to 8.2)." Although U.S. designers dutifully listened, some claimed that his new look was old stuff to them. Said the New York Dress Institute...
Nigel Molesworth, no weed, cad, dirty rotter or funk, is the curse of St. Custard's, or so he claims. St. Custard's is a very English boys' school, built by a madman in Gothic tempered by Byzantine, and run by a monstrous regiment of headmaster, masters and matrons, against all of whom Nigel is plotting revolution. He proclaims: "When we arrive in our helicopters we shall take over the skool and feed all with cream. FREE THE SLAVES...