Word: gothics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reflected on the economically flourishing skyline; Modern Living explores the quirks and comforts of living in contemporary architecture. Our coverage has ranged from palaces to apartments, from skyscrapers to chapels. Over the years, TIME covers have covered the top newsmakers of the field, from Ralph Adams Cram, the Gothic worshiper, back in 1926. through Frank Lloyd Wright in 1938, to this week's cover on Minoru Yamasaki...
Though the Pavilion was devoted to showing modern science, it looked as if it could have been the setting from a poem by Coleridge. From any angle it cast a spell. It had reflecting pools, stage-set lighting, delicate bridges, six buildings decorated with Gothic tracery. Inside, it subtly lured visitors along, stopped them just where the designer intended that they should pause and look. Probably no building put up in 1962 caused such a world of comment or brought into action so many cameras. Professional critics found dreadful flaws, but to almost everyone else the U.S. Science Pavilion, that...
...joke vocabulary is full of colons and ova. She discusses sexual failures, makes fun of women with abnormally small chest development, and moves from person to person in her audiences making clever references to the probable size of their genitalia. Some of her words are pretty old Collegiate Gothic, like horny and poontang. And she is billed as The Knockers Up Girl...
...heads. A $50,000 grant to the National Association for Retarded Children for "awakening the nation to the problems and for proving in countless ways that the retarded can be helped," brought the total gifts from the Kennedy Foundation to $225,000. Each award winner also received a soaring Gothic form in crystal, engraved with a figure of the seraph Raphael (the name means "God heals") holding a child in his arms...
...Gorgeous gothic stuff, in short, and Director Robert Aldrich knows just when to shock for shock's sake, just when to play his gargoyles for giggles. Under his skillful management, two aging screen queens-both of them are going on 55-give a vigorous and talented answer to a question often asked: What Ever Happened to Joan Crawford and Bette Davis...