Word: stark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...1950s (the French call their version tachisme, or staining). Hélas pour la grandeur, for just the reverse is shown. By comparison with the work turned out by the dynamic U.S. action painters, the French products look timid, prettified and unconvincing?with a few exceptions, most notably the stark abstractions of Pierre Soulages...
...three offerings thus far this season: Pantagleize. a fantastic farce by the Belgian Michel de Ghelderode; Exit the King, lonesco's stark philosophical play about death; and The Show Off, George Kelly's soft-spoken domestic drama of 1924. They make a bright dramatic palette...
...water board in order to bypass certain laws that confine the limits of police activity, Truscott is the eternal flatfoot. He has an infallible gift for minute circumstantial deduction, such as the source of burn stains on a wedding ring, but he is oblivious to a fact as stark and staring as a trussed-up corpse lying on a bed. Rose plays this ripe role with unflappable comic finesse...
...note the passion with which Massachusetts authorities have prevented the film from being seen and the fervor of their prosecution of the producer and director for "violating the rights of patients" and for "breach of contract." This apparent concern for the "rights" of patients seems hardly compatible with the stark reality of Bridgewater State Hospital...
...three offerings thus far this season: Pantagleize, a fantastic farce by the Belgian Michel de Ghelderode; Exit the King, lonesco's stark philosophical play about death; and The Show Off, George Kelly's soft-spoken domestic drama of 1924. They make a bright dramatic palette...