Word: gothically
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...designed an intergalactic Gothic set in which to develop his complex vision. Placed in a world of darkness and asymmetries, Aeschylus' familiar characters are de-familiarized, distored and dissected. Athena, once the cool, collected goddess of wisdom, is transformed into a weary, indifferent hostess. The Athenian court of justice degenerates into a cocktail party where under-the-table arm-twisting subverts the Athenian ideal of justice. The furies are not beyond consoling themselves with booze, narcotics and yogurt, not is Orestes above Oedipal fantasies for the mother whome he has murdered...
...trees and humans to grow and stay upright." Hyperbolas, parabolas, helices and helicoids, the curving, open-ended forms Gaudi used, were calculated so precisely that computers have shown his measurements to be perfect. Today computer-driven diamond saws are cutting Gaudi-designed inclined columns to support the nave, replacing Gothic architecture's flying buttresses. "We're still learning from Gaudi's genius," says Bassegoda...
...Dark Shadows is drained of blood well before Barnabas bares his fangs. The pace is funereal; the plot twists, pure gothic boiler plate. There's the fresh-faced governess who arrives at the mansion to tutor an eerily disturbed child; the slow-witted groundskeeper who is enslaved by the vampire (paging Dwight Frye); the 200-year-old paintings that -- gasp! -- bear a striking resemblance to present-day folk; the baffled reaction of doctors and police to mysterious deaths in the town ("Looks like some kind of wild animal tried to tear her throat out"). Cross has a suave-but-menacing...
When Shevardnadze arrived at the Stalin-gothic Foreign Ministry on Smolensky Square, he treated it as a candidate for cleanup. After 28 years under the proprietorship of dour-visaged Andrei Gromyko, the ministry badly needed perestroika and glasnost. Within a year Shevardnadze replaced nine of the 12 deputy ministers, instituted a daily press briefing, and created departments for disarmament and economic relations with the West...
...LORD'S WORK Construction began on upper Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine in 1892, but the Gothic structure's three elaborate stone towers remain unfinished. In 1980 master builders started to teach local youths the art of stone carving and hope to finish the job -- in about 60 years...