Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Randall's efforts are augmented by fine music, lighting and sets; designers Chermayeff and Martin have constructed a stage which slopes upwards from the footlights, and have ornamented it with a series of stark, handsome and flexible sets...
Gamy meat, and O'Neill served it raw. But after a trip through the production grinder, his scenes come out on film looking rather like a row of pretty little veal birds. The stark images of the play are softened on the screen to glossy blowups. The bare New England farmhouse looks like the dream cottage in a rural real-estate prospectus. The actors play in a welter of unrelated styles. But the most important trouble with the picture is that it was ever produced. O'Neill's characters are not people; they are symbols...
...decades the men of modern ' architecture and design have been perpetuating a plain world made of the cube, the cage and flat glass. Now they have begun to find their world pretty stark. Seeking inspiration for more richness, variety and delight, designers and architects have developed a new, absorbing interest in the fanciful work of men they once scorned and reviled, including a relatively obscure Spanish architect named Antoni Gaudi. For a report on this forward-through-backward trend, see ART, New Art Nouveau...
What has happened? The fact is that the world of the cube, the cage and the austere glass façade has begun to look pretty stark to the men who have been perpetuating it. The trouble is lack of richness, variety and delight, and the result is monotony. Architects and designers who recognize the problem are checking on themselves, re-examining the very style against which they once rebelled. They are searching for clues to the missing elements in much of mid-20th century architecture and design...
...Subterraneans celebrates that "systematic derangement of the senses" from which Rimbaud concocted his visions of hell. The difference is that Jack Kerouac, ex-merchant seaman, ex-railroad brakeman, is not Rimbaud but a kind of latrine laureate of Hobohemia. The story line of The Subterraneans is simple and stark: it concerns a short, manic-depressive love affair between a "big paranoic bum" and occasional writer named Leo Percepied and a near-insane Negro girl named Mardou Fox. Says Kerouac: "I wrote this book in three full-moon nights," and it reads that way. The details of the Leo-Mardou relationship...