Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poring over Hesiod's Theogeny or Wittgensteinian tracts. Life unfortunately is not often subtle; its punches are direct and (if you emerge unscathed) illuminating. Earlier this autumn, I was in front of an upscale Manhattan emporium, an indigent family, authentically caked in grime and clothed, literally, in rags, a stark contrast with the bored impolitically furclad matrons streaming out of the store. (Yes, the Dickensian parallel is deliberate...
Stated in such stark terms, the question seems to revolve around prejudice, with one side denouncing it and the other saying it is a fact of life that even a permissive society must bow to. Not surprisingly, it has become fashionable to equate the situation of gays now with that of blacks when President Truman fully integrated the armed forces by Executive Order in 1948. "People said blacks and whites couldn't serve together," observes Naval Academy professor Paul Roush. "It was generally accepted that blacks couldn't do the work and whites wouldn't serve alongside them...
Bush and Quayle continue to use intimidation tactics to present voters with what they claim is a stark choice between jobs and the environment. Bush has said that a Clinton presidency would mean "no timber workers, only a bunch of owls" and "no farmers, only a great, big, wet hole out there somewhere if you listen...
...stark graphics she presents in "Visions of Choice," a poster series exhibition opening at 5:30 on Friday, October 30, at Lehman Hall in Dudley House, force the viewer to question his or her views on the right of a woman to control her body. Synthesizing her experience as a designer with the country's collective consciousness has allowed Randolph to create work that resonates both visually and intellectually...
...mistreated corpse, clothed from the waist down when discovered, was now stark naked except for remnants of a boot dangling from his right foot, and bore the marks of his crude recovery. He had also been castrated; it turned out that his penis and most of his scrotum were missing, perhaps accidentally broken off during his recovery and taken by a visitor. Flown out by helicopter and transferred to a hearse, the Iceman and his possessions were transported to Innsbruck. There, one final indignity awaited the body. It became the centerpiece of a press conference in the local morgue. While...