Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They [street musicians] are an important part of Harvard Square, they're a stark contrast to Harvard life and this place would be dead without them," said Aundrea L. Oliver...
...last, all the details are on paper. To be exact, on 1,342 pages of paper that President Clinton hand-carried to Capitol Hill. Congressman Pete Stark, a California Democrat, said the next day that he had "stayed up to 4 a.m. but couldn't finish getting through" the proposed Health Security Act he had agreed to co-sponsor. Clinton himself rather plaintively told a Baltimore audience that "my brain aches" from studying the details of his own plan...
...hard-pressed to come up with exceptional nighttime fears--or at least for the pages of Fifteen Minutes. What, then, goes on during REM sleep of the FAS? Tenure terrors? Frus trations with the Harvard Coop's textbookdepartment? Visions of walking into the FacultyClub and suddenly realizing they're stark naked...
With the explosion of Latin American literature in the latter half of this century, authors such as Borges and Cortazar, Marquez and Puig have become household names for many Northern Americans. Their work brings into stark focus the social and intellectual conditions in countries with often brutally oppressive regimes...
...Esther's dramatic rescue of the Jews from the evil Persian vizier Haman, celebrated each year in the feast of Purim, is one of the Bible's most gripping tales, and Weisgall, working to a libretto by Charles Kondek, has told it well. Tunes, no; drama, yes. The stark and uncompromising Esther is a powerful evening of musical theater, highlighted by the electric performance of soprano Lauren Flanigan in the title role...