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...Elkies, it is the fundamental simplicity of math and music which lend them their inherent beauty. A stark, basic principle underpins even the most complex symphony or mathematical application, he says...
Madness descended. Motorcycle cops jumped curbs, machines roaring over the grass in a ballet of aimless panic. The crowd on the grassy knoll looked like it had been swept with a giant scythe. The street was empty, a stark, lifeless slab of concrete that smelled of disaster. Kennedy's motorcade had been chopped in two like a luckless centipede, the front end blown to God knew where, the rear end writhing and thrashing...
George Bush does not have a deeply held personal agenda. He has few strong ideological or intellectual beliefs at all, other than a basic decency, patriotism and desire for people to be accommodating. A stark example: Bush was torn this fall when Congress debated a federal requirement that there be a seven-day waiting period before someone could purchase a handgun, a provision supported by many law-enforcement officials. "I wish the police chiefs and the gun owners could figure out a compromise," he lamented in an off moment. "I'm for both sides...
...depths of human depravity. Veteran Harvard theatergoers may worry that such a play would be hard enough to sit through without the added trial of Mark Prascak's direction, given Prascak's string of unconventional adaptations. Such worries, however, are groundless. Prascak directs the play straight, on a stark, paint-splattered set, and lets the story--rather than his direction--come to the forefront...
More significantly, the repeal advocates have created a political atmosphere of "us versus them." The lines they have tried to draw have been stark: the poor, unarmed taxpayer doing battle with the evil giant, Labor, and his oppressive and omnipotent ally, state government. In short, the repeal movement has tried to paint a portrait of labor as out of the mainstream--they have tried to make the ludicrous case that the interests of organized labor in this state should no longer be part of the general concerns of the community...