Word: stark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concluded that censorship should go. Last June, after a minimum of debate, the 176-man Parliament agreed by an overwhelming vote of 159 to 13. What happened? Immediately, of course, a flood of new books came out under such labels as the "Porno Series" and with such titles as Stark-Naked, the story of a frigid girl whose therapy by an orgasm expert is carefully detailed. The ecstatic exactness of description had not been legal before, and publishers settled back to await the hordes of buyers...
Bellocchio put up most of the mon ey for Fists in the Pocket himself, cast it with friends and beginners willing to take a chance, and shot it at a villa that belonged to his mother. The stark, Faulknerian story of Fists in the Pocket is so gruesome that it often seems faintly ridiculous. In a decaying country house lives a blind woman with two epileptic teen-age sons and a neurotic daughter-all supported by her oldest son, who has a job in a nearby town and wishes he could afford to get married. It looks...
...contrast to the size and splashiness of the Japanese, the next two rooms display exercises in exquisite miniatureship. The galleries are wisely plain--stark white with only a bench in one room and an Indian rug in the other...
...groups by kind and occasionally setting off a masterpiece alone, like the bentwood and black-leather rocker that is number 36 (see photo on page three). This chair, an attractive card tells us, was mass-produced in 1860. Now it sits displayed at the end of a long, stark white box against white board and a black wall...
...settings may alter, but the essentials are always the same: destruction and death, horror and heroics in a brutal struggle against an unseen enemy of unknown character. The TV correspondents, stern faced and looking somehow too neat and clean-shaven, are omnipresent. But their words, imposed on scenes of stark and often shocking realism, seem superfluous. They say that U.S. casualties have risen 15% over a previous month, that the Army uses more than 10,000,000 sheets of paper each day in Viet Nam and, endlessly, that war is hell. The verbiage may even be informative, but what tells...