Word: gothics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made him what must be the most famous set of miniatures in history-the Très Riches Heures du Due de Berry. A tiny portrait of the duke in the Limbourgs' lesser-known Belles Heures epitomizes their manner: the stiff figure, kneeling devoutly before a sumptuous Gothic ground of red and gold brocade, the flat silhouettes, the sharp, unatmospheric color and light. The painting is conceived as a precious object, wrought with infinite care. So, too, with the work of the Rohan Master, or an anonymous miniaturist's image of Christ enthroned, surrounded by the four evangelists...
Popular tastes, inflationary economics, the scissors and blue pencils of outrageous editorial fortune, all conspire against topnotch depravity. In addition, journalism brings more actual horror into the home than gothic tales could ever manage. The threshold of shock keeps rising, and with it that numbness characteristic of the saddest of all monsters, the zombie...
...took the Crimson 2 minutes and 9 seconds to shatter both illusions at the Tiger's Gothic ice house. By that time, Dave Hynes and Bob Havern had scored within 27 seconds of each other, and Harvard was well on its way to a devastating 9-0 triumph that did much to restore any confidence that the team had lost during the past two weeks...
...Speak No Treason is a king-size gothic romance by Rosemary Hawley Jarman, who writes medieval English almost as gorgeous as Charles Reade's in Cloister and the Hearth. Her pages are dotted with sarplers, live-lodes, oxters, and muster-develers. 'Zooks if anybody knows what they mean; 'zounds if they aren't fun anyway. So is her version of Richard. She sees him as a 15th century Bobby Kennedy, the runt of a glittering litter who as a youth is devoted to his glamorous older brother, King Edward IV, and as Edward's successor...
...15th century, a work like Zoutleeuw's carving of St. Anne and the Virgin seems archaic, even naive. But it is a stunning design, the deeply cut folds, strict as metal, building up a system of pyramids that finishes in the smooth, serene, Gothic arch of St. Anne's wimple. By the 16th century the church was commissioning more elaborately naturalistic works. There is still a trace of Gothic rigor in the sweeping cloak of its lindenwood Mary Magdalene, but in all other respects she is almost a portrait, down to the look of pleased anticipation...