Word: gothically
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...does not really see this. Still, Erica has her moments. She befriends Wendy, by now pregnant, and convinces herself that this mewling muddle of saber-toothed helplessness represents Woman Wronged. Nothing will do, she announces, but that Brian divorce her and marry Wendy. This is horror at its most gothic-an intermittently tolerable mistress about to be transformed into an utterly frightful wife, complete with infant-and Brian's soul is filled with dread...
...should be enough to say that Winter Kills is a gothic farce about the assassination in the early 1960s of U.S. President Tim Keegan. Condon unaccountably gives Keegan a younger half brother named Nick Thirkield who uncovers the plot afterward, and although the shooting occurs in Philadelphia, not Dallas, President Keegan travels to Berlin during the blockade and tells cheering crowds, "Ich bin ein Berliner...
...Midnight Man is neither an exotic spy stalking the romantic capitals of the espionage world nor a menacing psychopath stalking some picturesque Gothic mansion. Rather, he is a weary night watchman, working the lobster shift at a backwater college, who has the misfortune to discover a murdered coed on his rounds. Jim Slade is a onetime top cop who has just done time for killing his cheating wife and has taken this job only because it is the closest thing to police work the parole board will allow. Portrayed by Burt Lancaster -who is turning into an attractive, hard-working...
Robbins said that Fineberg, who concentrates on early modern German expressionist painting, and Seidel, with her specialty in medieval and Gothic art, will complement each other as curators. The Busch collection includes German art ranging from the late middle ages to the present...
...behind the authors of the Nixon edition of the Watergate transcripts. Liberal Talk was just one of the styles tried out and discarded by these descendants of the nameless builders of the great Gothic cathedrals. On April 15, Richard G. Kleindienst '47 told President Nixon, "In the case of any, of any investigations and trials--you know, I mean--now that the time has come as a result of blah, blah, blah, you know...