Word: gothicisms
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...painting directly at future viewers. This painting is now in the centennial exhibition at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Many of the pieces in this show, taken from different ears and countries, indicate that they had no premonition of being placed in a museum: a Chinese vase, a Gothic Madonna, chairs designed for Napoleon, each made to glorify some person or cause, and not addressed to the museum viewer...
PRINCETON, N.J., Feb. 7-Harvard's hockey team took the first step on the road back to Eastern contention Saturday afternoon, disposing of outmanned Princeton 6-3 in the Tigers' cavernous Gothic garage. The second step comes tonight, when the Crimson confronts even weaker Northeastern in the consolation round of the Beanpot Tournament at the Boston Garden...
Bomarzo's Orsini combines Gothic deformity with a beautiful, refined face and a graceful pair of Tintoretto hands. Yet it is Orsini's genetic baggage, "the rucksack of my misfortune," that shapes his soul. In his childhood, the hump fostered his father's disdain and his brother's malice. When he was a youth, it caused impotence and self-disgust as Orsini had to view it multiplied in a harlot's mirrored chamber...
...Miriam, a ghost tale in the manner of Henry James, a loquacious Nanny (Mildred Natwick) is persecuted by a dead-eyed little girl (Susan Dunfee). Capote, who wrote the story at the age of 17, may be excused for an inability to distinguish between the gothic and the baroque. The Perrys, who clutter the episode with hollow scenes, flat performances and melodramatic terror-music, cannot be so easily...
...more of Wilder's stuff you see, the more you will be amazed by the man. He has done everything: trial drama ( Witness for the Prosecution ). Hollywood gothic ( Sunset Boulevard ). farce ( Some Like It Hot ), upper-crust romance ( Sabrina ). alcoholic melodrama ( The Lost Weekend ). He has done everything, and yet, he always wants the same thing from his audience-total distrust. Cynicism of the nastiest sort creeps into all of his work. While that doesn't exactly make his films pleasant, it certainly makes them unique in the history of American cinema...