Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stark but durable set (designed by Travis) reflects the simple strength of characters like John Proctor (Michael Efron), who is turned into an enemy of the state, fighting charges of conspiring with Satan. He is clearly innocent but the lies build up against him. Out of personal vengeance, his former lover Abigail Williams (Jessica Walling) implicates him as a channeler in devils. She has begun an elaborate lie to save herself from the same charges she lodges against others...
...depositions, affidavits, motions and, mostof all, internal Extension School memoranda painta stark--if incomplete--picture of the case...
...They should be able to know the difference between decent, God-fearing people and the criminals," thundered the Rev. Albert J.D. Aymer at Parkway United Methodist Church. "Reverend Williams is dead today because of a society that has gone stark mad," he declared. It is one, however, that still acknowledges remorse. Last week Boston's mayor, Thomas Menino, and police commissioner Paul Evans appeared at a community meeting to take the heat. "It is historic for a mayor and police commissioner to come out and say, 'I'm sorry,' " says Rodney Foxworth, co-chairman of a neighborhood council. The mayor...
This woman radiated a vulnerability which highlighted the depth of her need, presenting a stark contrast with this institution's enormous wealth...
Clinton said last week that if the Stark plan crossed his desk, he would sign it "because it does what I ask." But that is unlikely to happen. House and Ways Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski predicts that the bill that will ultimately pass muster with his 38-member panel will be "much more conservative" than Stark's plan. Though two Senate committees and three House committees are now jockeying for the spotlight, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Finance Committee is expected to emerge as the final arbiter of compromise. The question is just how badly the Hill's titans will...