Word: gothically
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...Matthew's Gothic exterior resembles the set of a horror movie, and its dark interior hallways can be a little spooky. But the wood-paneled rooms are nicely sized, and Matthews residents often turn the hallways and stairwells into an arena for creative dorm games. Matthews was renovated...
...been shown two years ago in England to no controversy and that this kind of discourse on the First Amendment should have been resolved before the turn of the last century. The main source of the fuss is that "Sanitation" displays the quotations from Giuliani and company in Gothic Fraktur font, a typeface often associated with the Nazis. The mayor has therefore accused Haacke of portraying him as a Nazi and concurrently trivializing the Holocaust. Objectively, Gothic Fraktur is more of a nationalistic font than a Nazi one. It is based on medieval German designs, and was certainly...
...attack; in Yarmouth Port, Mass. A former book-jacket designer, he created such macabre classics as The Gashlycrumb Tinies, an alphabet book in which A stands for "Amy who fell down the stairs." Though not a recluse, Gorey avoided the limelight (he declined a 1980 Tony Award for his gothic Dracula set design). Despite plaudits from critics such as Edmund Wilson, Gorey said that to take his work seriously would be "the height of folly...
...Gothic in its decay, Suffolk Downs is a beautiful ruin...
...Notre Dame de Chartres (112 ft.). Again and again, over the course of 200 years, fire destroyed the cathedral as commoners, clergy and nobility struggled to raise it. But with its towers, sculpture and luminous stained glass, it became the crown of the High Gothic age as it celebrated the piety, pride and prosperity of Crusader France...