Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scientist in Berkeley, built to Maybeck's design in 1910, today ranks as a historical masterpiece. Within, it is a massive square room, spanned by two colossal, diagonal, arched timber beams. Outside, broad overhanging eaves, reminiscent of a Japanese temple, project over glass screen walls decorated with exuberant Gothic motifs. It might have proved a nightmare of clashing styles. But Maybeck took his cue from his materials and kept his eye on the site. As a result, the church appears to float from the surrounding hedges, ornamented by its own shadows and highlights and finished for all time...
...hard to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland. The natives of the Gothic fen seem to have no objective so clear as the Africans, though they do perhaps possess their own inscrutable reasons for breaking up a premature St. Patrick's Day celebration. Spring may be muddy in Cambridge, but it must be especially lonely in New Haven, and the Yalies probably need to sublimate their seasonal hormonal energy...
...masterfully constructed piece of cinematic art. The cast performs with high distinction; lighting, costumes, sets, and make-up evoke the late Middle Ages with the authenticity of a Durer woodcut; and the entry of the flagellants is surely one of the most appalling scenes ever filmed. But Bergman's Gothic allegory will also trouble audiences philosophically, for it retains its symbolic ambiguity to the end and will not permit a facile interpretation or glib dismissal of any sort. For the Eliot House Anglicans as for the Adams agnostics, then-as well as for all the peculiar intermediate species between...
...keep his island from becoming "a right little, tight little clinic," he is constantly embroiled in some passionate public campaign -to subdue TV aerials, to save ancient towing canals or musty little churches. He writes glowing guidebooks, and he has so cleaned up the despised name of Victorian Gothic architecture that some of his readers are able to look even on London's Stygian train terminals with a kindly...
Billed as a "Serious Comedy," Period sounds more like a mad gothic anecdote. A couple of newly weds (Robert Webber and Barbara Baxley) drive up in a secondhand funeral limousine to the home of the groom's wartime buddy (James Daly). Left alone with the buddy, the bride ruefully sums up the first 36 hours of life with hubby: he shakes with an uncontrollable psychosomatic tremor, drinks incessantly "to keep warm," on their wedding night leaped at her like a satyr, frightening her so much she spent the whole night sitting up in a chair...