Word: starks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most highly prized by the tastemakers is the Thonet rocker. A cross between a badminton racquet and a Flexible Flyer, this calligraphic doyen of gracious sitting shows off to great advantage against the stark whiteness of painted bricks or modish raw plaster walls. Pablo Picasso owns one, and so does Hollywood Director Billy Wilder. Original Thonet rockers sell nowadays for between $75 and $185 (depending on state of repair and elegance of design) in Manhattan antiqueries, sold for much more until imports of them from Europe began to flood the U.S. market two years...
...jazzy score and slangy libretto, combined with Nazi-inspired resentment of its Jewish composer and its left-wing theme, touched off one of the worst riots in the history of the German theater. Rarely performed since then, Mahagonny was revived last week by the Heidelberg Municipal Theater in a stark and moving production...
...Henry Willson's renaming of Hollywood stars-Rock, Tab, etc.-the climax will come when he brings forth Stark Naked...
...something straight out of Dante's Inferno. A snowstorm that could be ignored or scoffed at elsewhere can paralyze a big city for days. Smog often covers Los Angeles, Chicago has its biting wind, and New York is covered by 525 million lbs. of soot each year. The stark anonymity of living in a big city crushes as many as it invigorates. Loneliness is a common malaise, and the bars are full...
...Stark County (O.) Jewish News...