Word: starks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC. This stark and timeless historical drama by Director Robert Bresson is based on actual transcripts of Joan's heresy trial, preserved in French archives since...
...last meeting, the Faculty vigorously debated the metaphysics of knowledge. The Doty Committee had proposed replacing the present division of departments into three fields with a bipartite division, into the Humanities and the Sciences. The proposal elicited a general response of stark horror. Professors of English saw their discipline sliding into the morass of History; Government professors shuddered at their department's being torn asunder and deposited into both of the new areas...
...Possible. The report began with the stark facts: in 1963 heart-artery diseases caused 55% of all U S deaths, and cancer 16%. Strokes killed 201,000; diseases of other arteries outside the brain combined with diseases of the heart to kill 793,000. Cancer killed 285,000. Many of these deaths were "premature," judged by the fact that they carried off people under...
...last night of the run, and then without any idea of how memorable and moving the performance would prove to be. Though there was a problem of inaudibility for those far back in the theater, and the lighting was rather dim in Act I, the use of Stark Young's translation and quality of acting and direction made this an extraordinary theatrical event... Personally I would like to see it a second time, and perhaps a third. Mark Roskill Assistant Professor Department of Fine Arts
...decolletage was as breathcatching as the Grande Corniche, her hair was hennaed, her makeup stark white; her expressive arms were encased in black gloves to the knobby elbow, and from her thin, lacquered lips slipped a repertory of chansons more Rabelaisian, Evangelist Dwight Moody once grieved, than any "Sodom ever produced." That was French Disease Yvette Guilbert, the ex-seamstress whose reputation became as luminous and lurid as the Divine Sarah or Eleonora Duse...