Word: stark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with starling simplicity. Character is left as inscrutable as it is in the Bible's objective narrative: we learn men's motives only through their words, and all Matthew's dialogue is taken verbatim from the New Testament--no interpolations by studio hacks. Costumes and settings too are properly stark, refreshing to anyone smothered by blockbuster tradition...
...late President only three blocks away (TIME, Dec. 24, 1965), many citizens were shocked at the tawdry boosterism of the city-approved legend. The juxtaposition of "historical trivia with a happening of transcendent significance," observed the Dallas Times-Herald, "will appear to many an attempt to evade the stark fact that a President of the United States was assassinated here, or at best an attempt to pass the event off as one of minor consequence...
Making its U.S. debut in Manhattan, Munich's Bavarian State Theater performs Woyzeck in German (simultaneous translations available) with brilliant fidelity of tone-stark, spare and stinging. Into a landscape of damnation walks Woyzeck, a simple soldier, poor, puzzled, and haunted by voices and apparitions. To eke out his army pay he becomes a guinea pig for a medical fanatic who puts him on a diet of nothing but peas and exhibits him to his students, an experiment no less dehumanizing for being silly. Woyzeck's firmest hold on life is a woman (Elisabeth Orth) who has borne...
...hours of exposed emotion can burn out your brain as easily as four and a quarter hours of sitting can wear out your pants. Director Robert Ginn and his cast of five have made no effort to alleviate the brutality of O'Neill's play. They have mounted a stark, oppressive Long Day's Journey which, while it catches the agony of O'Neill's experience, fails to convey the healing forgiveness which O'Neill granted that experience...
From San Antonio, Lady Bird and her entourage, 70 strong, flew to the desert mountain fastnesses of Big Bend National Park, where she was greeted by a crowd of 4,200, including, one local noted, "every living critter around here." So stark and jagged that astronauts have visited it to see what they will encounter on the moon-yet fiercely beautiful withal-Big Bend receives far fewer visitors than most other national parks, was thus a prime spot for one of the First Lady's See America First promotion trips...