Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...silent anticipation. A sense of detachment in the short, simple lines emphasizes an underlying presence of death and sorrow. And Strand's dreamlike collection of everyday objects paradoxically works to produce a coherent poem. Orr's poetry used the same simplicity, the same etherial contrast of commonplace images amid stark, unencumbered language, but the effect is different, more diffuse...
...style has always rested uneasily with the naturalism of film." His production has not made a very successful accomodation of the two. The banal absurdity of his comedy version of Rhinoceros is amusing, but forceless. Relying on traditional comic routines and gimmickry, O'Horgan's film hardly approaches the stark abstraction of reality and denial of convention demanded by real Theater of the Absurd. He has made an absurd film of a good play, not a good film of an Absurd play. The American Film Theatre should have stayed out of the rhinoceros business...
...Second Stain for the Prime Minister. We had also known curious cases. There was, for example, the puzzle of the politician, the lighthouse and the trained cormorant, referred to in The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger; and the singularity of Isadora Persano, the journalist and duelist who was found stark mad with a matchbox in front of him that contained a remarkable worm, said to be unknown to science (The Problem of Thor Bridge). But never had there been a case as complex and fraught with such grave worldly consequences as The Case of the Strange Erasures...
Wanted Babies. London's fashion able department stores looked as seedy as portside pubs, with stark light glaring from naked bulbs powered by generators. Yet there were compensations. Mayfair's elegant shops looked even more elegant with lighted silver candelabra on their counters. The widespread use of candlelight cast a heartwarming, old-fashioned glow over the misery of it all. Recalling the baby boom after the 1965 New York blackout, officials decided at 10:30 p.m. they had best sponsor a birth control campaign. Now the last thing Londoners will hear when they turn off the telly...
...prose. In fact, the magazine is as muscular and attractive as the bare-chested young blacksmith who posed for a recent cover picture. He symbolized one faction in a New England town embroiled in a fight over a polluted lake. This month's cover photo is a stark snow scene; the story tells of winter life in Siberia. Inside, other striking color pictures illustrate a variety of lively stories that explore everything from contemporary culture ("Cross-country with Shakespeare") to offbeat Americana (Tom Thumb's wedding and the love life of George Washington...