Word: stark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...childhood, however, were not limited to portraits commissioned by the wealthy. Charming street urchins and the newly freed blacks were the subjects of other romanticized portraits, such as Seymour Guy's Little Sweeper (circa 1887) and Winslow Homer's A Sunflower for Teacher (1875). Later the stark, sepia-toned photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine documented much harsher childhoods on the streets of New York and in the mills of Georgia...
Orton's grisly end and stark beginnings enclose one of the most compelling biographies of the past year, a psychological study of egos in conflict, marred but not destroyed by Author John Lahr's overlong digressions into literary analysis...
...Jones used the cloak of the First Amendment to deprive his followers of the very things that it was designed to guarantee: their freedom to worship and speak as individuals. That so many would shut off their minds and abdicate their roles as questioning, feeling, thinking beings was a stark reminder that, after centuries of what rationalists would like to think of as progress, in 1978 the line dividing civilization from savagery was still tragically fragile...
...lusty-again woman is, and how detached an observer of the trend Klemesrud is, gets called into question, however, when "Backstage with Esquire" goes on to note: "Klemesrud is sending out Christmas cards this season that bear a striking photograph of her lying face down on a fur rug, stark naked...
Just as Canadian workers are becoming more politically aware as economic problems increasingly plague Canadian society, Canada's students are showing more interest in promoting social and political change in their country. The recent upsurge in Canadian student activism creates a stark contrast to the relative complacency of their counterparts in the United States. The gradual radicalization of the students has played a crucial role in the left-wing politics of Canada, because students provide an important academic base for the working-class movement and help legitimize left-wing demands...