Word: stark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...changes have produced fierce reactions from a number of literary taste makers. W.H. Auden, who saw early versions before he died in 1973, said that liturgically speaking, the Episcopal Church "seems to have gone stark raving mad." Much of the new edition is "pedestrian, second-rate, banal," snaps Literary Critic Cleanth Brooks. Episcopal leaders generally dismiss such remarks as elitist fuming. The people in the pews, they insist, are grateful for the new version...
...Jesus Christ!" he muttered. "We'll go stark raving nuts if we eat all this shit...
...very end of the play, after each couple has been united, the actors--in stark white or black costumes till then--remove their robes to reveal bright, almost dayglo renaissance costumes. Like the discarded scripts at the beginning, Sellars undoubtedly meant this touch to say to the audience, "This is what I could have done, but that would have been boring...
...tone of Dawn is wildly different from Romero's earlier film, which was stark, claustrophobic, strewn with unintentional laughs, and genuinely funny. The gore and quick cutting help provide the scares, but the heavy use of shopping mall Muzak and color (the original was in black and white) buffer the horror and amplify the irony. It's also shockingly well-directed, blazingly edited (also by Romero), well-written (by Romero), and even well-acted (not by Romero)! The music editing, color, and jerky movements of the living dead combine to create a weird cinematic tour de force...
...first film, They Live by Night, won critical plaudits for its stark depiction of teen-age alienation, loneliness and savage cruelty-themes he later developed in the psychological western Johnny Guitar and the '50s cult film starring James Dean, Rebel Without a Cause. Ray's fortunes faded in Hollywood in the 1960s, not to be revived by blockbuster fiascos he made abroad...