Word: starkness
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Tsongas, the ungainly long shot with his stark probusiness philosophy, ran strongest among college-educated and independent voters. Looking beyond the controversies that have dogged the Arkansas Governor, New Hampshire granted Bill Clinton a strong second-place finish (25%) so that on primary night he could proclaim himself "the Comeback Kid." The big losers were two Senators who never grasped that so far 1992 represents a repudiation of politics as usual. War hero Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, an oddly diffident campaigner, offered the voters his biography wrapped in a glib media campaign and finished a poor third (11%). Harkin...
Everyone laughed and cringed during the Calgary Games when Britain's "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards jumped with his skis in a V configuration -- among other odd angles. His unpolished "style" was in stark contrast to the controlled flights of other jumpers, who kept their skis tightly parallel. Edwards finished dead last, but he may have been on to something. This year some of the best jumpers on the hills at Courchevel will be flying with their skis forming an ungainly but aerodynamic V shape. As innovator Jan Boklov, a Swede, has demonstrated, jumping in this manner improves lift...
...trouble. Money was tight; the museum's famous Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building was falling apart; exhibitions were uninspired; donors were losing interest. Enter Thomas Krens, armed with a degree in nonprofit management from Yale. As the Guggenheim's new director, he offered the board of trustees a stark choice: Preserve funds and run the museum conservatively, or attack. "If you want a vital institution," he said, "change has to take place on so many fronts that it's likely to be bewildering...
Pete Wilson is delivering a stark message this Christmas season to 2.2 million welfare recipients in California: It's becoming too expensive to support you. Facing a $3.6 billion deficit (over and above last year's $14 billion), the Republican Governor has called for an amendment to the state constitution granting him power to delete $600 million worth of social service programs from the state budget...
...billboard seems just the right size for the American landscape, while its boldness seems the perfect mirror for the American sensibility. From the sentimental images that sold soap in the 1920s through the stark, wordless Nike billboards of today, this book traces the evolution of a quintessential form of American advertising...