Word: gothically
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...from the Window. Wyeth met her many years ago, through his wife Betsy, who as a child had stayed at a house on the Olson property. He became deeply attached to Christina, marveling at her bedrock dignity and pride, enthralled-as perhaps only a painter could be-with the gothic romance of her witchlike features, piercing eyes, and scraggly hair. "To me," he once remarked, "she is the essence of New England-witchcraft. She rules like a queen, absolutely...
...first day in the office, Peesel "threw out all the old files," started modernizing Rollei's gothic production lines, and more than doubled the research budget to a current $875,000 a year. By telescoping Rollei's normal seven-year development period to two years, in 1966 the company was ready with two new cameras, which now account for half its sales. One of the cameras, a 35-mm. model priced at $190 and not much bigger than a pack of king-size cigarettes, has endeared itself to the pros who, as Peesel says, can "carry it even...
...pushed over, by the twelve-tone style of Pierre Boulez, with whom he studied for a time. Mines, commissioned by Sadler's Wells and first performed there three years ago, partakes of some of the near-physical brutality associated with the twelve-tone style. Its story is a gothic horror tale: a trio of scoundrels murder an old man and are then brought to penance by a troupe of plague-infected actors who may or may not be ghosts. "I wanted to write a tough, violent piece," says Composer Bennett, and he succeeded. His large orchestra churns out great...
...approach it as if it were a long, pretentious art movie. It should be read passively, with a relaxed eye toward its techniques, composition, shifts in style. And there should be frequent trips to the popcorn machine. A cheerful open-mindedness is essential because, for all its gothic appurtenances, the novel is a free-swinging romp, a virtuoso performance by an urbane writer who exuberantly deploys a variety of literary tricks-and then plays tricks on the tricks...
...Francisco recently, Roman Catholic Archbishop Joseph McGucken signed the final contracts to build an $8,000,000 replacement for the old, Gothic St. Mary's Cathedral, which burned to the ground in 1962. Much to his surprise, a group of priests and laymen objected to his plans for the cathedral, on the grounds that the money should be used instead for humanitarian projects such as low-cost housing for the poor. The protesters cited Pope Paul's encyclical Populorum Progressio and the Vatican Council's Constitution on the Church in the Modern World in arguing against...