Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Constructionist artists have achieved stark realism by the use of silk, wool, glass, cotton and various other commodities in their paintings. One, a woman, put real iron bars before a picture of lions...
Beau Geste, The Better 'Ole, The Big Parade, Don Juan, The Fire Brigade, Old Ironsides, Metropolis, Stark Love, Tell It To The Marines, What Price Glory...
Soon Ben Tillett, a more moderate M. P., spoke for the Labor party: "We deeply regret the demonstration against the Prime Minister at Cwm. . . . Nothing but the stark tragedy of death could have brought forward in Mr. Baldwin's presence the brutal facts of class war. . . . However much this outburst of personal resentment must be deplored, the miners righteously resent the callowness and oppression they have suffered and are suffering...
...Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...
...that instant a man, stark naked, his body a mass of bruises, rushed down the aisle and up to the tribune. While shrieks resounded from the gallery, this man, one Jovan Risitch, coughed and spat blood upon the floor, then cried in a husky voice: "You, Maximovitch, did this to me! Last night your assassin Sokolovitch had me stripped as I am now and beat me himself because I-a poor government clerk-would not vote as you ordered...