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...time Columbia Pictures started thinking about filming Barbarians, whose rights had been optioned to veteran producer Ray Stark (The Way We Were) for $700,000, evil junk-bond genius Michael Milken was well on his way to jail, the takeover era was over, and the public backlash against the excesses of the '80s had started in a big way. Moreover, the catastrophic flop of Brian De Palma's adaptation of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities in 1990 had cooled Hollywood on the idea of making movies set in Manhattan's financial district. Columbia began to shy away from...
...Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for his collection of short stories, Low Flying Aircraft. Critics greeted his short stories with open arms. They all loved his "voice." A reviewer for San Francisco Chronicle described his "original language;" in The New York Times a critic gushed about his "stark, imaginistic prose...
...evidence of some of Lorde's most persistent themes, especially those of pain and blood. These last lines suggest that she is aware of her role as voice for that collective anguish. In all of these poems, Lorde uses that pain to create an emotional intensity that makes her stark lines cry out in anger. Despite the eloquence of the language and the almost hypnotising rhythm and minimal punctuation, the poems stir up a sense of defiance and even frightening hurt. Lines like "as, with a smile of pity and stealth,/ she buttered fresh scones/ for her guardian bones...
...YORK CITY--In this city of stark polarities, where limousines whiz by mentally deranged homeless people and porno theaters stand next to playhouses, another study in contrasts emerged Saturday in the Harvard men's basketball game against the Columbia Lions...
...groups of "ordinary" young Americans. And the attention to youth seemed to pay off: According to exit polls, 46 percent of voters aged 18 to 24 cast their ballots for Clinton, compared to 32 percent for former President Bush and 21 percent for Ross Perot. This was a stark reversal of 1980, when young voters deserted the Democrats en masse for Ronald Reagan...