Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shots of flowing lava, deserts and snow drifts suggest a wasteland, presumably Siberia, that, accompanied by haunting music, add to the sense of the impending doom of the love affair. The bizarre sequences involving a flying man form a stark contrast to the jovial musical scenes and make the film a surreal montage rather than a generic documentary...
...blues catharsis. Bette the jaunty favorite of the dear departed bathhouse set, making Long Island jokes ("Hell's little theme park") and addressing her earlier fans: "I see we have our quorum of leather queens here tonight." Bette the Broadway star, fronting campy production numbers and performing the stark Rose's Turn from her forthcoming CBS revival of Gypsy. Bette the burlesque comic, delivering her Sophie Tucker jokes with a wonderfully perky diction that bleaches out the blue. Finally, Bette the nonpareil balladeer; she has now sung The Rose 4,186 times, but it and her other standards still bloom...
...California Gov. Pete] Wilson, who measures up with Dracula in supporting social services, won't support this mandate. Oregon won't support this mandate either," Stark said...
...Stark also told the audience that they should not expect to see a finalized plan in the near future...
...spend a couple of months shedding light on this plan. We really don't have any details yet," Stark said. "We're going to have more hearings than you can think about [concerning this proposal]. I can't even think about what will happen in the Senate...