Word: gothic
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...national inflation rate, now approaching 900%. Alfonsin's timing was troubling, even if the charges were untrue. They came on the eve of the opening of the civil trial of nine members of the military juntas that ruled the country from 1976 to 1982. The trial, in Buenos Aires' gothic Tribunales building, is expected to last for several months as six judges hear evidence of alleged human rights abuses against suspected subversives. An estimated 9,000 Argentines disappeared during that dark era. Many are believed to have been killed by death squads operating with official sanction...
...also might have wondered why, when you take an exam or two in Memorial Hall each semester, the temperature inside in always frigid or sweltering--no matter how comfortable it is outside. That ancient Gothic building must have a demonic spring possessing it determined to recreate the fortures of old for unsuspecting undergrads...
...devoting the entire program to one devastating series of films, a homegrown product that had to be exported to France before it gained its deserved recognition in this country. I'm speaking of course of the recent rerelease of all 13 parts of that American Gross-Out Gothic, Friday the Thirteenth...
...children. Margery Hellmold, with a strong, cultivated voice, rejoices in the fact that the children are so sweet, happy and loving. But we listen with a sense of forboding. For in the music there is a undercurrent of fear. And there is a sinister taint to the subtly gothic set designed by the well known author and illustrator Edward Gorey...
...been the worst of winters. Temperatures down to -14 0 F. Shards of ice glittering on the Gothic towers of John Calvin's church, the Cathedral of St. Peter. The glacial wind known as the bise whipping the beautiful lake into whitecaps all along the quais that fan out from the Mont Blanc Bridge. Just last month, two feet of snow suddenly blocked all avenues to the Palais des Nations, the U.N.'s European headquarters, and forced the postponement of an international conference on human rights. Incroyable. Nobody could remember such a thing ever happening before. Swiss army recruits...