Word: gothicisms
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...ITHINK THAT CARS today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object...
...building. "But he was always on my side," chortles Kahn. "He wanted me to win." In the Exeter Library, Kahn refused to countenance the idea of a reading hall and produced instead a series of zones of privacy tucked away "in the folds of construction. I like early Gothic libraries I've seen," he says. "There was a high aedicular quality to them; they were small places, intimate...
...LATE GREAT CREATURE by Brock Brower. An oldtime horror-movie actor attempts to refurbish the glories of the gothic and macabre traditions in a time of cheap thrills...
Despite these flaws the play's ornate, Gothic-novel quality makes it fully enjoyable. It twists down the dark tunnels of crime with the special mock-seriousness that delights every mystery lover, exploiting all the best conventions on its way. In the best moments I was convinced every door hid a secret corpse, and that every goodness contained a little folly...
Such trappings of the Gothic genre creak as badly by this time as the front door of the requisite sinister mansion. Director Johnson does not precisely succeed in making all these antique devices seem fresh-that would be asking too much of anyone-but he contrives to invest each scene with an effectively clammy inevitability...