Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said. "Sop up every experience of life, and then don't forget to wring yourself dry in expression." What Wyeth has sopped up in his 45 years is the vast interior of a geographically limited world in which "every hill is a personal feeling." If his paintings seem stark and spare, it is because he wants to "pull things down to simplicity." He has an unerring sense of composition: anything that interferes with "the essence" of a picture is ruthlessly eliminated. He prefers winter over summer, because in winter the trees are naked and the earth more fully revealed...
Utah. In a stark battle between out right liberal and unabashed conservative, Democratic Congressman David S. King appears to have an outside chance of ousting Senator Wallace F. Bennett...
...fall comes swiftly, as one by one, the characters in Phaedra plunge into the vortex of tragedy, stark and classic...
...world with an affectionate eye: a stark interior he would somehow make snug; a winter street would lose its chill; and in his scores of landscapes-from his native Wisconsin to Giverny in France to Maine and Vermont-he never showed a storm or the sun as anything but gentle. Robinson may have been a minor figure, but his talent was genuine and warm. It was-as so many of his friends said about his laugh-infectious...
...Nick Jenkins is a small boy living in his father's country house at Stonehurst. The servants and the horses are in their quarters. The chef is good. All seems secure. There are no local portents of doom except a hysterical maid who appears to serve the mousse stark naked and is promptly whisked belowstairs in a Madras shawl...