Word: gothicisms
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...author of more than 50 books; in New Orleans. Though she never won great critical acclaim, she developed a sizable following for her light, brightly told tales, most often about New Orleans and Southern plantation life, as in Dinner at Antoine's, Crescent Carnival and Steamboat Gothic...
...places was the tradition ever more than mimicked anyway. The Western architectural conventions were transferred intact, without any thought to modify them to suit the environment. The only exceptions are relatively small, like the Spanish missions in California. Buildings were built like Greek temples and were used as banks: Gothic cathedrals grew up in downtown Manhattan...
...once a church, and Brustein has exploited its dark interior to augment the play's supernatural dimension-even to the otiose point of having important speeches delivered from the pulpit. The electronic sound effects that thump and mutter portentously reflect not so much Newness as good, old gothic hokum. But these mechanical excesses hardly detract from a vibrant updating of the quintessential symbol of love 'em and leave 'em. The presentation deserves not to be left in New Haven...
...busy sculptors whose realistic bronzes seldom get a big play on the art pages, but continue to sell. The Remingtonesque cowboys of Wyoming-bred Harry Jackson are snapped up as fast as he can turn them out, at prices in four and five figures. David Aronson's neo-Gothic gargoyles, angels and prophets regularly sell out in editions of eight and twelve...
...development and growth of the radical movement during the past five years. Her smoothly flowing prose often becomes intensely descriptive, grappling momentarily with acutely perceptive insight. Describing the revolt against the technologized state for example, she notes Edmund Wilson's observation that "in times of social disorder literature becomes gothic." Thus, she writes, life is becoming macabre and grotesque as men sense frighteningly that their spell-binding super-technology, with its awesome unworking complexity, is rendering them helpless. And men, baffled by this technology, turn to cults- or what the Coop's book department has begun to categorize the "occult...