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Hogwash. Sociology majors should relish the opportunity to examine first-hand the finest example of American slum. Architecture buffs should jump at the chance to view decaying pseudo-Gothic buildings...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: There's No Excuse to Stay in Cambridge | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

ORPHEUS DESCENDING. In this gothic erstwhile flop by Tennessee Williams, brilliantly reconsidered by director Peter Hall, Vanessa Redgrave returns to Broadway for the first time in twelve years and proves herself to be the greatest actress in the English-speaking world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

...effect, this would make the NEA hostage to every crank, ideologue and God botherer in America. A grant for an exhibition of Gothic ivories could be pulled on the grounds that the material was offensive to Jews (much medieval art is anti-Semitic), to Muslims (what about those scenes of false prophets in hell with Muhammad?) or, for that matter, to atheists offended by the intrusion of religious propaganda into a museum. A radical feminist could plausibly argue that her "nonreligious" beliefs were offended by the sexism of Rubens' nudes or Picasso's Vollard Suite. Doubtless a fire worshiper could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Loony Parody of Cultural Democracy | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...sets, like the music, are exquisite. The movie is filmed at St. Andrew's School, where huge gothic buildings, a calm lake, autumn leaves on New England trees and a blanket of white snow all play to the naturalistic and romantic poets whom Keating teaches to the boys...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: You Can't Quantify `Dead Poet's' | 6/30/1989 | See Source »

...told TIME before he journeyed abroad, going back on the "mashed- potato circuit," admittedly upgraded to include palaces and potentates. But his message will be the same: the triumph of freedom. He delivered it eloquently in London's Gothic Guildhall and in Paris, where fireworks heralded the 100th birthday of a great lady, the Eiffel Tower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Warm Reverie of Reagan's Retirement | 6/26/1989 | See Source »

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