Word: gothic
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...excessive chauvinism the natives' insistence on speaking Catalan rather than Spanish. But those who take the time will discover in this most Mediterranean of cities a rare personality, fanatically avant-garde yet obsessively preservationist. First century Roman baths are being excavated amid the twisting streets of its dense Gothic quarter. The famous Picasso Museum is housed in a 15th century palace; the main Olympic stadium is a renovated 1929 arena. This month Antoni Tapies, Catalonia's best-known living painter, will open, in a refurbished art deco mansion, a foundation featuring four decades of abstract works. "Catalonia," says Tapies...
...climax of this show is, inevitably, the Cathedrals, Monet's repeated views of the west front of the Gothic Cathedral of Rouen: art about art. Between 1892 and 1895 he produced 30 of them; ten are lined up in Boston. Some critics have shied away from them as pictorial near absurdities, Gothic rendered as melting ice cream, architecture without a line anywhere. It would be hard to argue this for long in front of the paintings themselves. How could such an endlessly complicated form as this Gothic facade, with all its peaks, hollows, spires, bosses and moldings, be so fully...
...special transvestite episode of Scooby Doo in the Haunted Gothic Mansion. It's the 142nd Hasty Pudding Theatricals show--"Suede Expectations...
...Peter Miller's Victorian backdrops are particularly striking. Here is the benefit of the Pudding tradition and popularity: it brings in enough money to afford plenty of extravagent sets. Beautiful scenes that include the Gothic manor both inside and out are embellished with small but impressive set pieces, such as a Romeo-and-Juliet style balcony with louvered doors. The audience literally gasps with each new set that comes down...
...only at the game itself, either. On the Yale campus, everything was a comparison to Harvard. Ornamental Gothic versus stately Georgian architecture. More posters on their kiosks or on ours? Basically: which is better, Harvard or Yale? As if it mattered. As if anyone in the world who doesn't go Harvard or Yale cared...