Word: starke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came after three months of hemming and hawing about his own candidacy and his choice of running mates. The mayor had been under heavy pressure from dissident camps about his ticket. Democratic reformers led by Eleanor Roosevelt and Herbert Lehman wanted Wagner to dump both City Council President Abe Stark and Controller Lawrence Gerosa as incompetent. New York's Liberal Party-a powerful third force in New York politics-also demanded that Stark and Gerosa be left off the ticket. But Wagner was under equally strong pressure from regular party leaders to keep...
...almost a quarter of a century, Designer T. H. (for Terence Harold) Robsjohn-Gibbings successfully designed stark, austere contemporary furniture for a number of top U.S. manufacturers. A decorator, architect, author (GoodBye, Mr. Chippendale), and longtime admirer of the durability of classic Greek forms, Gibbings grew increasingly disenchanted with the coldness and built-in "artificial obsolescence" of most modern furniture. Poking through museums and private art collections all over the U.S. and Europe, he cribbed ideas from the drawings on ancient Greek pottery and bas-reliefs. This week in Athens, a new line of classically inspired furniture based on Gibbings...
GARY: At last, La Dolce Vita has come to Boston. Perhaps the best film to come from post-war Italy (L'Avventura and Miracle in Milan notwithstanding), Doice--to give it the probable trade abbreviation--is an angry and moving indictment of the continent's rotting cafe society. Stark and beautiful, this is no movie to be missed. Evenings...
...conductor's baton, and a singer who wants to be heard has to shout down the throat of the tuba. But despite such drawbacks, the audience at Manhattan's Xavier Theater last week saw and heard as fine a revival of Gian-Carlo Menotti's stark Greenwich Village drama. The Saint of Bleecker Street, as the opera is likely to receive. What made the production even more surprising was that not one of the professional performers was paid...
From the startling first scene on (a statue of Christ suspended from a helicopter flies over Rome), Fellini's use of the city itself casts an eerie tenseness over every event. Stark white, modern buildings rise like phantoms everywhere...