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...Matisse, for example, have applied their free-wheeling philosophy primarily to color, laying it on canvas in broad, brilliant, arbitrary splashes, and raising it to an intensity never before equaled in Western painting. Rouault trowels on his colors like hot coals, achieving the richness and emotional impact of Gothic stained glass-which also shuts nature out. Braque, who is more interested in form than color, leads the eye on surprising new adventures by painting shapes that seem to shift and change as one looks at them. The results may sometimes shock; they can also feed the imagination with the fire...
Lovely Shelmerdine. One horrible example of Drayneflete's decline & fall is the little Gothic lodge built by the second Earl of Littlehampton on the outskirts of town, about 1800, to house the noble lord's friend, the poet Jeremy Tipple. At first a pretty little country house, the building becomes in turn a town house crowded by a garish gin palace and a draper's shop, a mason's workshop, and finally-in the Drayneflete Plan-a pickled historical monument ornamenting a main traffic artery...
...exterior of the heavy Victorian-Gothic structure, which has been the subject of more abomination than the inside, will probably remain untouched, he said. Sanders Theater and the big hall will be the centers of the renovation activity...
...character is a magazine publisher who is the Voice of Reason. His wife is the Eternal Hussy: the intelligent emancipated woman, who, while flaying with one hand the dragons her man must kill, still holds fast to the bedpost. There is a visitor to their household who writes modern Gothic novels about an evil spirit named Slime Shindigs, and who can see a little blue light hovering over the house. His function is to play Cassandra, which he does by jamming about the blue light and his damn Shindigs (which, spelled backwards, you see, is almost Myles Standout: Puritanism...
Back to Gooseberry Tart. In Lincoln, hatless, slightly rumpled Attlee pointed aloft to the spires of the city's famed Norman and Gothic cathedral. "There is your heritage," he cried to his audience. "All around is your wealth, and here, in your hands and your brains, is your skill. The country needs it all." Then he added bitterly: "It was not so long ago that skill and brains were forgotten, wasted . . . Profits came first . . . Today you've got work, you've got security, education for your children, and fair shares for all." Later, the Prime Minister...