Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stark fact remains that Negroes are dying for what the President calls "freedom" and "democracy" in Vietnam, while their relatives are treated as second-class citizens back in the states. Dr. King justly feels that this incongruity, as well as the damper the war has placed on anti-poverty measures, should be impressed on Negroes' minds...
...only thing for addicts is ex-addicts," insists Lynn Sexton, 19, one of the founders of the Encounter program. "We know all the self-delusions and games addicts play, and the addicts feel we are sympathetic to the problem." For no matter how stark a film is, it is far less forceful than the impact of the face-to-face confrontations that are the key to Encounter's success. "I just tell them that almost every friend I had when I was on drugs is either dead or in jail," says another Encounter founder, Jan Stacy...
Moving from a defense of his war policies to an attack on his critics, Johnson pointed out that civilian casualties caused by U.S. operations "are inadvertent, in stark contrast to the calculated Viet Cong policy of systematic terror." Even so, he went on, "the deeds of the Viet Cong go largely unnoted in the public debate. And it is this moral double bookkeeping which makes us get sometimes very weary of our critics." As if to punctuate the President's point, a Viet Cong plastic bomb erupted at a Saigon bus stop the same day, killing an old woman...
...prospects for a frontal confrontation? A deadserious playwright (George Grizzard) with integrity fever wants to stage precisely that. In the opening scene of his play, a man will be offstage in the bathroom brushing his teeth. His wife, in the adjoining bedroom, calls out something. Suddenly the man appears, stark naked, toothbrush in hand, saying, "You know I can't hear you when the water's running." According to the playwright, this will trigger a "shock of recognition" in the audience, penis pity, perhaps...
...would accept the part. After all, it wasn't a very big role, and she would have to strip down to the waist. She didn't have the slightest hesitation about that undressing part." Pressagents got into the act, of course, and reported that Vanessa had offered to "walk stark naked down Piccadilly for Antonioni." With some acerbity, Vanessa retorts that she "never said such a rubbishy thing...