Word: starke
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There was stark evidence of that in Chrysler's dismal year-end results, out last week. Having earned a very respectable $255 million in 1973, Chrysler reported a shocking $52 million loss in 1974-by far the biggest in its 50-year history. The worst damage hit in the fourth quarter, when the company lost $73.5 million. With more bad news expected this year, the board voted to omit the 350 quarterly dividend-the first time it has had to do so since...
...more arid ideological asides without substantially damaging the original text. Somewhat less comfortably, Losey flirts with Brecht's best-known theatrical devices: he uses a chorus (as well as the excellent original score of Hanns Eisler) and stages the scene of Galileo's anticipated recantation in stark relief - huge shadows against a white screen dwarfing the fore ground figures. He also begins the whole production with an overhead shot of the film sound stage. Since Brecht's ideas were intended to breach and defy the proscenium rather than challenge the camera, this last device looks a little...
...view of life Fellini takes in Amarcord may be partly excused because it is a self-confessed sentimental journey home, its lesson modified by the cruel world of Roma and the stark heroic drama of Satyricon. Fellini's achievement, in Satyricon, of a coherent interpretation of the ancient classical world different from anyone else's, was much greater than anything he's done since, but his audience seems to have missed it. Now critics are falling head over heels in a rush to congratulate him on having made a sweet, accessible movie--he just received the New York Film Critics...
...Arabs wear beneath an abayeh or robe. His meals are bland and include much .boiled rice because of a series of ulcer operations. The King routinely works a 16-hour day, which leaves him little time for a private life. For other Saudis, however, Faisal is slowly relaxing the stark imperatives of Islam. As the King has grown older, his reign by the standards of conservative desert Arabs has become surprisingly benevolent. Although members of the royal family are expected to behave at home, they and other well-to-do Saudis are seldom reprimanded for high living abroad, even when...
Conductor Schippers and the Met put the lie to that argument last week in a way that demonstrated all over again what grand opera is supposed to be and mean. Mussorgsky's orchestral writing turns out to be stark, but not as bleak as one had been led to believe. His melodic style is roughhewn and at times commonplace, but never without a specific point. What the new Met production revealed above all was that, amazingly enough, Mussorgsky knew exactly what he was doing. He also made fierce demands on the orchestral players, often asking, say, the horns...