Word: stark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company tears fresh loaves of pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows are for good and against evil," insists Schumann. They are played in stark terms. In Reiteration, the actors wear grotesque masks; one wears a skull, another a gas mask, others are in oriental or black face, While Schumann announces each scene, the actors walk through a slow-motion allegory condemning the Viet...
...back to the early 1960s, when he and other young artists were rebelling against the prevailing mode of abstract expression. Samaras' way of celebrating the long-ignored object was to summon up his disturbing Macedonian memories. Matchbook and spectacles, in a 1962 ink drawing, were depicted with the stark frontality of a Byzantine icon. Samaras also created silvery, pin-encrusted books and boxes that suggested silver reliquaries. They were packed with knives and razors, nails, stuffed birds and X rays of skulls trepanned by pins, together with photos of Samaras...
...press, a public relations firm owned by American Adman H. William Bernhardt. Since January, Mark-press has literally waged Biafra's war in press releases ?more than 250 of them. They are crammed with news of impending arms deliveries that is designed to embarrass European governments and with stark warnings about starvation. The firm has arranged air passage into Biafra for more than 70 newsmen from every West European nation and transmitted eyewitness reports to their publications...
...fitting follow-up to Santa Fe's earlier U.S. premiere of Hans Werner Henze's The Bassarids, a stark, twelve-tone retelling of Euripides' The Bacchae. The libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman rang out with eloquent pathos. The cast struck a perfect balance of harshness and lyricism under Composer Henze's baton. Perhaps best of all, though, was the spectacular scene depicting the burning palace of Pentheus. Smoke billowed and red lights flickered. Once again flames soared at Santa Fe-but this time they were just part of the show...
Forceful Representation. Sobol's lawyers argued that if Negroes asserting their constitutional rights have trouble finding local attorneys, they must be permitted to retain out-of-state lawyers. And in federal court, Sobol's first witness gave stark testimony about how difficult it is for a local attorney to represent a Negro. New Orleans Lawyer Lolis Elie, himself a Negro, told how his law office was bombed two years ago. Then he recalled the greeting he received in one courtroom. Said Judge (now U.S. Representative) John Rarick upon Erie's arrival: "I didn't know they...