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...meeting and went to a private office to discuss the situation in greater detail with Diaz and Beatty. When he learned DeFede had made a tape without Teele's knowledge, their discussion turned from Teele to what to do with DeFede and his tape. Fiedler saw the issue in stark terms. ?Making a tape recording without telling anybody is a subterfuge,? he insists. ?We talked about wow, we have this, what do we do?? Fiedler says. ?Is this a firing offense? Are there sanctions short of that? Is there precedent here? All of those things, believe me, were argued...
...Civil War. As a modern historical painting, it draws on archetypal images such as bulls, horses, and melancholy women—particularly Spanish themes but nevertheless universal. These images, fragmented and pained, startlingly convey the horrific bombing without resorting to realist or romantic terms. The painting’s stark absence of color is equally impressive. Painted solely in shades of black and white, the images employ symbolic and graphic punch while vibrating with intense expression. To a contemporary audience acquainted with black-and-white newspapers and film, the colorless palette additionally connotes objectivity to an otherwise emotional piece...
...Burton’s signature style and imagination is the golden ticket. Just as in “Big Fish,” we are treated to an unreal world where we want to believe. The stark grays of reality—and the gloom of abject poverty—are complemented by the rainbow colors of candy in the Wonka factory and the brilliant blues in the spick-and-span toothpaste plant where Charlie’s father worked...
JIMMIE A. STARK...
Before all of that there is this man-to-man exercise, the palpable event of settling into one of those big, brown leather chairs (Reagan carefully studied the advance pictures of the stark Reykjavk meeting room) and looking into the eyes of Mikhail Gorbachev and trying to discern what they are saying even as strange language tumbles out of his lips and is unscrambled by an interpreter between them...