Word: gothic
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...11th grade. There was no opportunity then to identify Alicia, who knew Mills slightly, as a particular copycat risk. The local press and tabloid-television reporters made much of the fact that both girls hung with a crowd that wore black clothes and black lipstick and listened to gothic music, as if they belonged to some death cult. Their friends think this is ridiculous. "I used to have a class with one of the girls who dressed like that, and she was really nice," says ninth-grader Clarissa Muzzy. "They were just girls who liked to dress in black...
Cezanne's sublimation produces not flesh but a kind of architecture. Yet this architecture is incontrovertible. Its scale is increased by the overarching trees, which supply a Gothic vault, and by the high, cloud-laden sky. And the final effect is one of exhilaration at the sight of the old man in his last year of life winning from his turmoil an equilibrium that was truly classical, and yet hiding so little of the inner compulsions that drove its making...
...purchase the hot wheels from 1989's Batman that he paused during a show in Raleigh, North Carolina, and bid from the stage. Why? Surely not because of its alleged female-magnetic properties. "I live in a bat cave right now," says Copperfield, whose taste runs to the gothic. "So I might as well have a Batmobile." Plus, it may well go unnoticed in the town that loves him best, Las Vegas...
...series is filled with intriguing secondary characters, especially Reese's domineering father, who is played with creepy panache by Ray Wise. Savannah is such deliciously bad Southern gothic that it may even help you forget the simply awful Northern Gotham that was Central Park West...
...dark and gothic atmosphere pervades Boys for Pele. Surreal, almost disturbing at times, Amos continues in the vein of her previous albums. For example, "Marianne" is about a suicide, while "Little Amsterdam" depicts an interracial romance intertwined with murder...