Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With his stark, honest irony, Carlin has shown countless audiences how silly and obsolete America's taboos and social inventions really are, especially in the age of the city.. "Cultures have to have some things they consider unthinkable, and in ancient times, health or survival reasons entered this," he says. But it would be really nice to channel some of the things going on today that are really unspeakable--like severe deprivation--and make them the focus of our attention...
...Stuart, Fla. After his first novel, Confusion, was published, Cozzens dropped out of Harvard, wrote one more novel, then married a New York literary agent and settled into a life of seclusion and unremitting hard work. In the 13 books that followed he fashioned a stark vision of life, and sometimes a clinical view of love, against meticulously researched professional backdrops. The Last Adam (1933) was about a doctor; Men and Brethren (1936) was about a minister; The Just and the Unjust (1942) and By Love Possessed (1957) about lawyers. Cozzens' plots are seamless and compelling, his protagonists unromantic...
DIED. Edward Durell Stone, 76, world-famous architect whose 1954 design for the U.S. embassy in New Delhi epitomized the highly embellished style of his later years; after a brief illness, in New York. Touring Europe in 1927, Stone had his first look at the stark glass and aluminum "international style" that he would use in his 1937 design for Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. But years later, after his El Panama Hotel in Panama City was built in 1949, Stone denounced his austere designs as resembling "the latest model automobile, doomed to early obsolescence." Aiming at what...
...movie begins with stark images-still lifes snapped around a disused beach house, then female hands and pensive, pained faces. That style, an emblem of high seriousness, persists throughout a film one will remember mainly for its look: actors grouped in self-consciously arresting ways, costumes and sets done up in grays and beiges, the lighting (by voguish Cinematographer Gordon Willis) low-keyed and "textural...
...gray skirts," said he). During one session in a Hamburg court, Nannen stirred a row when he whisked out huge cheesecake photos of two of the plaintiffs, one showing Actress Erika Pluhar in short shorts and boots, the other from an old movie portraying Film Director Margarethe von Trotta stark naked and making love to a man on the roof...