Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Favored colors are red or maroon and navy blue, dark or pale green, and basic black. White predominates in several hues-stark, off-and creamy-a careless nose thumbing at practicality. The message, explains Los Angeles Designer Marilyn Lewis ("Cardinali") is: "I'm not working. I'm disporting myself with physical pleasure because I have the leisure...
Even readers who agree with the parajournalists of Women's Liberation are often embarrassed to find their positions taken with so much self-pity and self-righteousness, with such bloated excesses of tractarian rhetoric. In stark contrast stand the lean, sharp novels of British writers like Edna O'Brien and Margaret Drabble, and American fictionists like Joan Didion...
Winter Light (1963). Stark Ingmar Bergman film starring Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin, and Max von Sydow...
...Rhodes, in a brilliant first novel called The Last Fair Deal Going Down, shows he knows about the Midwest. Because Rhodes grew up out of it, loving it and hating it, a strong and peculiar relationship to the heartland pervades his book. Picking the hardcover up from the shelf--stark black lettering looming, out from a staring white with the braille letter punched neatly underneath, you can leaf through and get a quick sense. The copyright page announces that the novel is "translated from the braille by David Rhodes," although Rhodes is not blind. The inside leaf is bereft...
...novel so full of stark sillouettes it is too bad when the lucidity breaks down. There are some things that Rhodes cannot communicate: Reuben himself tells us that he is not altogether sure what finally got him out of The City, into the "finished, unfinished position" at which he finds himself when the book ends. He thinks that it has something to do with his sister Nellie, but there seems to be an emotion here that is too powerful and complex for him to convey: the isolation he laments throughout the novel finally cuts him off from the reader. There...