Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chinese Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua set his chopsticks beside his bowl of shark's fin and crab meat. Then he rose and made a toast. "The stark reality is not that détente has developed to a new stage, but that the danger of a new world war is mounting," Chiao told 300 listeners in Peking's Great Hall of the People. "To base oneself on illusions will only abet the ambitions of expansionists and lead to grave consequences. In the face of the growing danger of war, China's fundamental policy...
...years before the American Revolution, the questions of the day were often stark and demanded decisive answers. Should the Stamp Act of 1765 be protested or not? Should British tea be dumped in Boston harbor? And finally, when the war broke out, the ultimate question: should one remain a loyalist or support the patriot militia...
...little gray animals. See how they run and jump." As Armstrong ambled, I almost forgot about the rows and rows of Mission Controllers. But in the glistening photographs, there was no face, only mirrors, on the front of the helmet. And the lunar module was imposing, monolithic, stark in the sharpness of the pictures, technology brought home, hard...
Much has to be done, beyond merged admissions, equal access, and new housing proposals to make Harvard and Radcliffe and their residents equal members of the same community, and if at some point at least one stark-raving mad Radcliffe student storms a dining hall attendant or section person, well, don't say you weren't warned... Holly Sean Kennedy...
...everything he and the lens record, including the dark edges of the film itself. This sharp edge forces the eye inward to the details effaces and nuances of expression. Avedon's pictures are lean, made with soft daylight and bouncelight against a white, seamless background. They are also stark because of the moment that Avedon tries to capture, as in the 1955 picture of a youthful Truman Capote. He reads the eyes of his subjects, waiting for that second when they reveal the facet of character he wants: he allows an older puffy-faced Capote to stare dully past...