Word: starkly
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...this point, or when reading about "stark" deterrence, which involves the capacity to completely destroy the enemy ten times over, the reader may reach an ostensible crisis of his own and refuse to take Kahn seriously. Such a reaction has two faults: it neglects Kahn's real insights into the nature and use of force, and it obscures the real weaknesses of his approach. Kahn is not "advocating" or "justifying" mass murder. He wishes to avoid nuclear war while pursuing some version of the national interest. To this end he asks the important question: under what circumstances is a nuclear...
Died. Dorothea Lange, 70, noted photographer of the hopeless poor, whose stark portraits of Depression breadlines and "Okie" refugees helped shock the public into supporting Government relief projects, and led Edward Steichen to call her "without doubt our greatest documentary photographer"; of cancer; in San Francisco...
...apocalyptic. A vision of crushed humanity, rapine, bestiality, murder and death. A man is hanging from a telephone pole, prisoners are being massacred, mothers wail over the bodies of their emaciated children. Reinforcing this vision of inferno are his colors: stark blacks, whites, umbers, reds, yellows, and ghastly phosphorescent greens of putrified corpses...
Film, written by Samuel Beckett, played both the Venice and New York fests. It is a stark, black-and-white portrait of an old man who awaits death in a small, lonely room. Seeking absolute solitude, he turns out his cat and dog, closes the curtains, covers the parrot cage and goldfish bowl with his coat, and blacks out the room's only mirror. Finally, he destroys the last reference to the world in which he has lived, a packet of old photographs. But he cannot escape himself, and as he lifts his eyes to the barren wall before...
This resolutely useless information is published in one of the year's most peculiar and fascinating books, an encyclopedia of logology assembled by a stark-raving logomaniac named Dmitri Alfred Borgmann, a Chicago actuary whose name, when its letters are transposed, spells "damn mad boring trifler." Boring he is not. Among his offerings...