Word: starkly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Walt Disney has for so long parlayed gooey sentiment and stark horror into profitable cartoons that most moviegoers are apt to be more surprised than disappointed to discover that the combination somehow does not work this time. The songs, by Peggy Lee and Sonny Burke, are naggingly reminiscent of other tunes, but none of the cartoon creatures-except, possibly, a whistling beaver playing a bit part-have a fraction of the lovable charm of those in Disney's earlier fables...
...uninspired revue. Phoenix '55, made a dent. But far funnier was the off-Broadway Shoestring Revue; and there were such other achievements as Jean Anouilh's gay and witty Thieves' Carnival, a stylish revival of Congreve's Way of the World, a sensitive revival-in Stark Young's admirable new translation-of Chekhov's The Three Sisters. Despite much that is amateurish or pretentious, off-Broadway increasingly ministers to sound minority tastes; these days, indeed, dramatic caviar is only to be had cafeteria-style...
Dunster: Joseph D. French, James G. Hatcher, Jr., David H. Knutson, Daniel A. Rezneck, Sirgay Sanger, Hugh A. Sargent, Bradley W. Stark, Thor H. Thors...
...shelf. When inspiration strikes, she dashes off a simple little sketch that looks, to the layman, something like a child's matchstick drawing of a man. But to the seven sample hands who work in the room next door to her cubbyhole office, the stark lines are enough directions for them to start draping...
Churning Machines. Such stamina is the secret of the Walter Reed girls' success-and it is not easily come by. Year-round, the youngsters let nothing, not even their school work, interfere with training. Every day finds them out in their sagging, stark black swim suits, ready to start a practice session by 7 a.m. And every morning, under the calm and skillful guidance of Army Pfc. Stan...