Word: stark
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...proverbial design envelope." Rei may draw outside the lines, but certainly the GSD's award ceremony held in her honor did not. Despite the celebrity element, the event proved to be austere and somewhat dull, probably less interesting than the classes normally held in the recently redone but still stark Gund Hall. The casual attendee yearned for a supermodel or two strutting down the aisles catwalk-style in some of Comme des Garon's many flamboyant ensembles to spice up the uneventful award presentation. Those organizing the affair declined to show even modest visual accouterments such as slides, preferring instead...
Yesterday's offensive production stood in stark contrast to the Crimson's most recent performance, in which the Crimson was outshot 85-44 in two games against UMass and Yale two weeks...
...University (and the Institute as a part of the University) is legally beholden to its prize donors to preserve the conditions attached to a prize--thus the reason why the Frothingham might remain for men only. However, the stark gender imbalance among the prizes should encourage the University to reexamine the original language of prize criteria and do as much as it can within the letter of its obligations to donors to open prizes to both men and women. Where this is not possible and where a prize must remain single-sex for reasons beyond the University's control...
...beautiful place that should be preserved for aesthetic or moral reasons but also as an economic asset that delivers irreplaceable goods and services. Ecosystems temper climate, purify and store water, recycle wastes, produce food and support all the other things that make Earth a friendly oasis in a stark and lonely universe. Despite the universally acknowledged importance of these life-creating natural networks, until now no organization has undertaken a global assessment of Earth's capacity to continue delivering goods and services...
...their foes were busy checking real-time quotes for Intel and GE, the antiglobalists were swapping digital photos of police brutality, reading Noam Chomsky's essays on media brainwashing and posting tips on defending against pepper spray (wear a handkerchief soaked in vinegar). The irony of all this is stark, and possibly galling to the technocrats: the Web was supposed to be globalism's great tool, not a forum for its enemies. The Web was supposed to weld together markets into one enormous worldwide trading floor, not organize thousands into picket lines...