Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When students finally do dare to rip the precious seal, all but those most secure in their academic pursits are confronted with a stark reality: this book is 1.12 inches thick, 791 pages long, 1.5 pounds heavy. There's no way to read about every course, much less to give them all fair consideration. Even if we choose well, we'll always wonder: could we have chosen better...
Black women are 15 times as likely as white women to have AIDS, according to a study by the Centers for Disease Control. The disparity was far less stark among men: black men are five times as likely as white men to have AIDS. Preliminary data indicates that AIDS has become the second leading cause of death among black women ages 25 to 44, the CDC says; it is already the leading cause of death among black and Hispanic men of that age group. The CDC study also shows that 55 percent of all AIDS cases are occurring among racial...
...disparity between the races on the Simpson case is stark. In a TIME/ CNN poll, 63% of whites said they believe Simpson will get a fair trial; only 31% of blacks felt the same way. While 66% of whites think Simpson received a fair preliminary hearing, just 31% of blacks found the proceeding fair. And 77% of whites called the case against Simpson "very strong" or "fairly strong"; 45% of blacks judged it the same...
Schwarzenegger sees this stark encounter as Helen's chance for liberation: "During the interrogation, she says her life is boring. She needs excitement, to be at risk. My character realizes he hasn't given her the life she wanted, so he starts giving her the excitement right there. She was begging for it." To Cameron, the scene is open to several interpretations. "I want couples to argue about it afterward," he insists. "That's part...
...stark contrast to this conspicuous opulence, one need only walk to the nearest metro station. Filled with lavish mosaics, frosted chandeliers and archways of stained glass, the metro offered a magnificent expression of Soviet splendor that belied the brutality of the era that produced it. Yet for millions of Muscovites who ride the trains each day, the metro no longer provides a voyage through a subterranean communist cathedral, whose effect is both sumptuous and muscular. Today it is overrun with beggars, reeling drunks and small-time entrepreneurs dragging trollies laden with crates and boxes...