Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to constant car research, von Bekesy is an avid antique collector, and is a familiar prowling figure in Cambridge and New England antique shops. He exhibits pieces of early art in his laboratory "to relieve the stark gleam of instruments that bristle with knobs and dials," according to Stevens...
KENMORE: A film version of Alberto Moravia's TWO WOMEN, which goes by the same name. A portrayal of the almost incredibly stark life of the Italian peasantry during the Second World War's Italian campaign. Sophia Loren and her film-land daughter (anonymous) leave bomb-strafed Roma only to find privation, and the sex-starved troops of three nations. Climax of the film comes in a deserted hillside church were a platoon of North African irregulars make off with daughter's virtue and mother's dignity. If "The Virgin Spring" dismayed you, stay away from this. Evenings...
...jowly, side-burned bust of Martin Van Buren was discovered in storage. Treasury Secretary and Mrs. Douglas Dillon chipped in with a roomful of Empire furniture including a mahogany library table and an anonymous source lent a Samuel F. B. Morse portrait of Revolutionary War General John Stark. Back to the White House from a private home in Virginia came a tufted upholstered chair that was formerly in Lincoln's bedroom. Cached in a discarded scouring-pad carton in the White House basement were two sets of vermeil knives and serving spoons that belonged to President Monroe...
...drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade, the small talk of tiny birds in the bushes, and the murmuring of a mountain stream. And at night: the goose-pimpling patter of rain on the canvas that wakes a child, the stark clarity of detail in the tent when lightning flashes, and the crack of thunder and its rolling echo around the lake shore...
...pleasing hardly anyone. Sweating profusely at a floodlit conference (where the mayor's frantic brow-mopping provided photographers with readymade man-in-agony pictures), Wagner announced his choices. He dumped Gerosa, picked able Deputy Mayor Paul R. Screvane, 46, to run as city council president, downrated Brooklyn Haberdasher Stark to controller. The move took Stark out of the line of succession should the mayor resign for a federal appointment. Cried Brooklyn Boss Joseph T. Sharkey, white-faced with anger: "I think the Jewish people in this town might feel they were trying to get rid of Abe and make...