Word: gothicisms
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...GRAND GOTHIC HEADQUARTERS OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE has been designated a smoke-free zone, from the basement to the executive suites on the 24th floor . . .with one exception: the ramshackle cubbyhole on the fourth floor, where numero uno columnist MIKE ROYKO bats out his prose...
...latest from English herself), seems likely once again to nail down the evening as a wholly owned subsidiary of CBS. And the strong Friday night figures for the new Golden Palace (a spin-off of the successful Golden Girls) and Picket Fences (a reworking of the rural-gothic themes of Emmy-winning Northern Exposure) may create a new bridgehead for the Tiffany Network...
...thought "Pat's Towing Service" would be a big parking lot with hundreds of impounded cars stretching all the way to Framingham. But the reality was even scarier. The towing operation is housed in a very gothic-looking brick building that looks like something out of "The Munsters. "The interior of the building is dark and oily. Broken down and smashed automobiles line the entry. And then you meet...
...first spurt of renewal was in the Middle Ages, creating the Gothic city. Then came a slump, as the ascendancy of Castile and the shift of trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic thrust Barcelona into a 200-year depression, from which it began to recover by industrializing only at the end of the 18th century...
...Dutch burgher's housefront, with mock-medieval sculptures by the gifted Eusebi Arnau -- including animals blowing glass and taking photos, these having been the owner's hobbies. Another is Puig's exquisitely decorated house for the Baron Quadras, now a museum of musical instruments; a third, the Venetian-Gothic Casa Marti, housed the center of Barcelona's artistic bohemia, the Four Cats cafe, where established artists like Ramon Casas hobnobbed with younger ones like Picasso...