Word: stark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world goes, so goes Cahalys' Infected by the spirit of the large, stark, and controversial buildings springing up everywhere, the Cahaly brothers will soon move their retail grocery story next door, to 47 Mount Auburn St., and there turn it into a "modern superette," about twice as large as their present establishment...
...LEARNING TREE, by Gordon Parks. Like Author Parks, the young hero of this first novel grew up in the Negro end of a small Kansas town. His unabashed nostalgia for what was good there, blended with some sharp recollections of violence and stark fear, makes a readable, sometimes unsettling book...
...Aureole, the dancers are all in white, stark against a backdrop lighting of limpid Mediterranean blue. Taylor, a blond, blue-eyed matinee idol, looks as if he could double as a circus strongman, and the trio of girls accompanying him are Nereids in semidiaphanous slips. The dancers move like sails on a summer sea, now lazing, now racing, sometimes capsizing, then righting themselves as they catch each new breeze of improvisation. There is no story line whatever, but the mood is as artless as love...
...while to think of some symbol that would be both restrained and striking, the group pounced eagerly upon an idea suggested by the hostess' son, S. Stinor Gimbel, 30, vice president in the family hops business. His idea: use the simple, familiar mathematical sign of equality. The result, stark white on black...
Last weekend's presentation of this play at the Experimental Theatre, therefore, was in stark contrast to a more amiable view of the battle of the sexes being portrayed on the Main Stage. Shaw could smile resignedly at the tenacity with which woman fulfilled her duty to the Life Force and captured a husband. Strindberg brooded over the plague of women besetting man, and saw tragic disaster in the marriage woman sought. In both plays though, there is a great deal of talk...