Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greying, distinguished Norman Norell, 66, is today the dean of U.S. designers. As an apprentice, he designed costumes for Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson. Today his Manhattan collections still retain much of the sleek, stark, flamboyant yet functional modernity that was characteristic of the late 1920s and early 1930s-and remain equally timely in the 1960s. Norell pioneered culottes and fitted jackets with pleated skirts several seasons ago, showed the now universal pants suit in 1964. His most famous dress is undoubtedly the basic, columnar, $3,000 sequined full-length sheath that he has been making, with minor variations, since...
...findings were stark confirmation of studies made nine years ago (TIME, July 29, 1957), which showed that some cigarette manufacturers, anxious to get a satisfactory flavor past their filters and to their customers, had switched to stronger tobacco...
...Gregorio to a wider public. With a group of friends, he formed the "Committee for Free Beaches," circularized the campuses of San Francisco and Berkeley, and soon more than 500 nudists each Sunday were wending their way to San Gregorio. "The greatest beach in the world," said one stark-naked Foothill Junior College student, happily surveying the scene. "This is the best incentive I have to stay slim," cried a Botticellian Berkeley coed as she raced into the combing breakers...
BERKSHIRE THEATER FESTIVAL, Stockbridge, Mass. The Merchant of Venice, July 19-30, performed as it was by the inmates of the Theriesenstadt concentration camp in Nazi Germany in 1943-the costumes are stark prison uniforms and the set is a bare hall in the camp. To be followed by Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot...
...parable for church performance," the hour-long piece is based on a medieval No drama, Sumidagawa. It is a simple tale of a demented mother in search of her lost child, and it unfolds like a morality play in slow motion, all the more compelling for the stark economy of its movement and action...