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...very talented cast of character actors, including Academy Award-winner, F. Murray Abraham, as Bernardo Gui, a Spanish Inquisitor and William's nemesis. And while the cavernous abbey has none of the ornate, Florentine architecture we associate with religious structures, it's the perfect canvas for the Gothic faces who dwell there--monks with hunchbacks, bloated tumors, anemic skin and smudged features. No detail was spared on casting the extras...

Author: By Elizabeth L. Wurtzel, | Title: A Haunting Rose | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

...marchers were attempting to disrupt Schmidt's procession from the Gothic-style Sterling Memorial Library to Woolsey Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schmidt Installed | 9/22/1986 | See Source »

...Busch-Reisinger, founded in 1903 and later supported by prominent benefactors including Aldophus Busch of Anheuser-Busch, Inc. and his son-in-law, Hugo Reisinger, is considered the foremost museum of German art on this continent. The Gothic building, which boost a Flentrop organ and original arches, houses works by Walter Gropius and Lyonel Feininger as well as Renaissance and Medieval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fogg May Get Added Space | 8/15/1986 | See Source »

...year-old Gothic building, currently used primarily for large lectures in Sanders Theater and exams in the Great Hall, may be renovated inside to increase its possible uses, said Zeckhauser. "We want to make sure we are using it in the best way we can to recover costs" of the exterior renovations...

Author: By Maia E. Harris, | Title: Memorial Hall Will Face Renovations Next Spring | 7/29/1986 | See Source »

...that picture lay in its relocation of that classic device of the horror genre, the haunted house. Instead of being a Gothic pile isolated on a bleak moor, it was a spaceship visiting an unwelcoming planet in an obscure corner of the universe. But the situation was the immemorial one: a monster, in this case an alien life-form requiring human hosts for gestation, is stalking the spaceship's endless, ill-lighted corridors, picking off victims one by one. But there was only one creature, six frightened earthlings and little more subtext (or, for that matter, dialogue) to the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Help! They're Back! | 7/28/1986 | See Source »

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