Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until now, abuse prevention campaigns have used scare tactics in the form of stark, shocking images such as that of a woman holding a gun to her nostril, over the caption, "COCAINE...
Quite a few of these jeremiads are headed for the screen. Producer Ray Stark (Steel Magnolias, Annie) last week acquired film rights to Barbarians at the Gate, a best-selling account of the $25 billion takeover of RJR Nabisco, the largest buyout ever. Warner Bros. has paid a sum estimated to be in the high six figures for the privilege of filming Liar's Poker, an I-lived-with- savages expose of the Wall Street firm Salomon Brothers. And the cameras are ready to roll on the movie version of Tom Wolfe's blockbuster novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities...
...capitol Government of the great state of Wisconsin arranges for what-is-now-known-as a Holiday Tree, which rises up from the floor into the great empty space below the dome. The tree is remarkably ugly. Not originally of course; it was clearly, when in the buff in stark Wisconsin nature, a fine pine of northern stock; but they had taken this poor tree and given it a cosmopolitan makeover which completely concealed the fact that 'twas ever a nat'ral-born tree, free and proud...
...accustomed to lavish quarters amply stocked with alcohol and drugs was given a stark 10-ft. by 6-ft. rear room, decorated only with a crucifix. From his spartan quarters Noriega could not see the U.S. soldiers deployed outside on the Avenida Balboa; his only window was opaque. His television set did not work. There was no air conditioning. In Panama's 90 degrees heat, that hardly made for comfort...
Strasser the infrastructure nerd (his Texas Tech degree is in architecture and engineering) finds buildings' guts -- beams, electrical outlets, air conditioning ductwork -- compelling pieces of the interior design puzzle. "I want my interiors to be a little raw, stark, to the point," he says. "Architecture is good -- you don't need to cover it up on the inside. But it's hard to get clients to go raw." The severe Texas recession of the 1980s was his big break: with corporate budgets tight and deluxe froufrous out of the question, it became easier to convince businesses of the merits...