Word: gothically
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...been looking forward to Opening Day for weeks. Curious friends and I had snuck downstairs after "Ec 10" lectures to watch the construction. Centuries away from the awe-inspiring gothic majesty of Sanders Theatre and the half-finished Annenberg Hall, Loker looked humble, even homey. The semi-hidden booths beckoned me to sit, study and have a cup of coffee...
...Cocteau Twins built their reputation on being a gothic-ambient, primarily electronic band. Their incomprehensible but passionate vocals struck a chord in the hearts of an unexpectedly large contingent of despairing Britons. Hence the cries of "Sellout!" when the group switched from the obscure 4AD to main-stream Capitol Records, and the winces of fans when 1993's lovely and melodic Four-Calendar Cafe attracted comparisons to the Sundays and the Cranberries. The Cocteau Twins' two latest EPs, released within weeks of each other, take the Twins' unique, subtly emotive sound in a new direction altogether, with uneven results...
...would include the mighty, acerbic Roseanne, still potent after seven-plus seasons; newer shows now hitting their stride, like Mad About You, The X-Files, Friends, NewsRadio and the wonderful Homicide, more vivid and biting than its more illustrious rival NYPD Blue. Among the season's new shows, American Gothic, Ned and Stacey and The Bonnie Hunt Show are all odd and worth watching before they get canceled...
Nabokov liked to shock as well as enchant. A biology professor who suspects his wife of adultery frightens her to death by putting a skeleton in her bed. There is a boyish cruelty similar to Alfred Hitchcock's in many of Nabokov's mock-gothic tales. He was an ardent hunter of clichas and kitsch, and a mischievous parodist of traditional literary forms. The familiar 1952 story Lance sends up science fiction whose "Star tsars, directors of Galactic Unions, are practically replicas of those peppy, red-haired executives in earthy earth jobs." The little-known 1924 tale The Dragon turns...
...Simpson trial has wrought is a large and varied cast of characters with an overblown sense of their own importance. Starting with a few lawyers and moving on down through some of the dismissed jurors to the Kato Kaelins and Faye Resnicks, members of this new American gothic have milked the mikes, signed book contracts and chatted on Larry King Live with abandon. But one person whose self-image may be right on target is former detective Mark Fuhrman. "I am the most important witness in the trial of the century," Fuhrman purportedly said during a tape-recorded conversation with...