Word: gothically
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obviously didn't. In the third screen version of the grisly Gothic novel by Gaston Leroux, the phantom as interpreted by Herbert Lorn looks about as dangerous as dear old granddad all dressed up for Hallowe'en in a mouthless lavender mask that could probably be duplicated for a dime at any corner candy store. And why does he wear a mask? Because his face is so horrible that if people saw it they would run out of the theater hollering eeeeeeeeeek? No. Because, it turns out, he still looks like Liberace...
...masterfully constructed piece of cinematic art. The cast performs with high distinction; lighting, costumes, sets, and makeup 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--The Seventh...
...common culture. The exhibitions have ranged from rococo to Romanesque to the romantic, and each year a different city has played host. In a sense, the Vienna show -"European Art Around 1400"-is the most complex, for the period forms a cultural valley between the spiritual peak of the Gothic cathedral and the humanism of the later Renaissance. Yet the council has achieved a notable success: for all its diverse elements, the art of Europe around 1400 had an undeniable unity...
...pride of Holland's city of Arnhem is a sturdy 11th century Gothic structure called the Eusebius Church. Badly damaged during World War II, this Dutch Reformed church has gradually been rebuilt in strict accordance to medieval style. But when Architect Theo Verlaan came along to rebuild the steeple, things changed fast...
...tripartite portcullis that can be raised and lowered as a whole or in sections, and, when wanted, an opaque curtain just behind it to allow changes of set in back while scenes are played on the extended apron in front. Elder has also fashioned a series of suitable Gothic arches; and, in the garden scenes, even the flower trellises culminate in ogives...