Strap a gargoyle on the corner and you would think you were in baroque Europe.

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The best songs here, like this one, Walking My Gargoyle, live up to that gloom-pop name.

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Crown Fountain, Jaume Plensa's splashy water-work, where video images of locals spout gargoyle-style?

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That tinkling sound you hear behind you is bits of evil gargoyle overlord Nigel Lythgoe's granite teeth crumbling to the floor from over-clenching.

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She describes herself as "not an artist by any means" and said she printed a picture of a gargoyle before returning to her piles of snow.

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Not just a wicked witch, Ravenna is a monstrous gargoyle of feminine wiles, a spiritual vampire who feeds on others' youthful vitality and leaves them old and wizened in her stead.

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The plot of "Lost in Yonkers" sounds like the premise for a second-rate sitcom: Eddie (Dominic Comperatore) gets into hot water with a loan shark, stows his two boys (Matthew Gumley and Russell Posner) with his gargoyle-like mother (Cynthia Harris) and goofy sister (Finnerty Steeves) and goes on the lam.

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