Word: gothic
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...despite the superficial differences in idiom among his works, what remains constant is Gorecki's unshakable faith. Like Bruckner's soaring Gothic symphonies, Gorecki's music is secure -- staunch in its Catholicism, sanguine in its magisterial technique and confident in its calm, unmannered directness of expression...
When Alumni Hall becomes the first-year dining area, it will return to its original function Until the 1920, the Gothic-revival hall housed students eating at Oxford-style traditional 12-seat tables...
DESIGN: New Age Gothic...
...steel, look like 21st century allusions to 16th century Japanese armor, at once futuristic and resonant with the past. "One of architecture's functions," Maki has said, "is to awaken subconscious memories of shapes." He does so, at Fujisawa and elsewhere, by means of a sort of New Age Gothic, in which romantic form follows rational function, in which the architecture and the state-of-the-art construction...
Tommy is a fairy tale with heavy Freudian overtones. The narrative centers on spells and enchantments, ordeals and rescues, in a life verging on the gothic. The thematic concerns are more universal: growing up, facing down everyday demons, coming to terms with the past. In the current plot (there have been several variations over the years), the central character is a boy of four when his long-missing father returns home from a German POW camp. The father, presumed dead, finds his wife in the embrace of another man, quarrels with him and shoots him. The frantic parents instruct their...