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Word: gothicism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...postcard design possibilities are innumerable; "Mem Hotel, an Intimate Lodging in the Tradition of the Core Curriculum" and "Wish You Were Here in Our Gothic Paradise" come immediately to mind. Within a few years, maybe it could get put on the Club Med circuit...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: '368 Bedrooms, Good Location' | 12/8/1988 | See Source »

THERE is nothing sudden about Suddenly Last Summer. In fact, the play is rather excruciating. Tennessee Williams' awesome drama combines all the horror of a 19th century gothic tale with a 20th century Freudian's worst nightmare...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Shall I Compare Thee... | 10/21/1988 | See Source »

Across the street, surrounded by the pubs, was a massive building, half gothic without the spires, half colonial without the shutters. OK, this might be something. The sign above the door said that visitors must have a pass from the school office. Clearly an invitation to roam...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: Faraway Stops on the T...You Never Thought You'd See | 10/13/1988 | See Source »

...them." Flannery O'Connor's modest self-analysis remains the most penetrating of all. Doomed by | a hereditary disease, lonely, indomitable, sustained by her faith and her work, the Southern Catholic saw herself as a lifelong outsider. When she died at 39 in 1964, she left a legacy of gothic tales obsessively concerned with characters she called "more or less primitive." The author displayed no biases. Blacks are sometimes sympathetic; just as often they bring trouble. The moral force of religion can be redemptive, or it can lead to violence and death. Women may prove enlightened, or they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bookends: Oct. 3, 1988 | 10/3/1988 | See Source »

...notable reprints include Michael Gilbert's Young Petrella (Harper & Row; 222 pages; $15.95), a collection of magazine stories from the 1950s and '60s that display his trademark Scotland Yard detective with a deadpan precision of mood worthy of Simenon, and A Double Life (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $17.95), short gothic chillers by Louisa May Alcott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suspects, Subplots and Skulduggery | 8/8/1988 | See Source »

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