Word: stark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A brutal tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia is raised by Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych's stark symbolism to a high level of creative cinema...
...fitting bathing suit sprawls across the auto's trunk. To promote Selimaille men's underwear, a layout in the politically oriented Le Nouvel Observateur features a male model standing with hands folded in front of him, a pose that fails to hide the fact that he is stark naked...
Director Brynych's stark, symbolic explorations of human despair lift The Fifth Horseman to a high level of creative cinema. The search by the secret police for Braun's wounded patient is more conventional, though still visually exciting. When the other tenants living in Braun's apartment house are eventually implicated, they become only too willing to sacrifice him to the Nazis, and when at last they are forced to pass his dead body on the stairs, only a madwoman and a child so much as give it a glance...
...Articles by students about student revolts have a habit of beginning with an example of bourgeois society the student encountered en route to his student revolt. It represents a pithy bit of Daily Life which contrasts effectively with the stark unreal purity of the particular, and general, student revolt. This Universal Encounter may lose its validity as a literary device through repetition, but it remains a significant personal experience for the student...
...stark tragedy was best brought out by Thomas Jefferson's statement that the tree of liberty must often be watered by the blood of tyrants and patriots. Let us hope that this latest moisture was well absorbed in this arid spring...