Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those songs in which he shows off his sense of black humor, the comic is always mixed with a deep-seated sense of disgust. "Motel Blues," whose lyrics are almost more tears than words, is his best example of stark dissatisfaction and yearning, in this case, for a lover...
...Fosse--in bringing Cabaret to the screen--has done well to sacrifice none of these innovations. The core of his film is still the cabaret numbers themselves, played out on a cramped, cluttered stage given depth and dimension only by Geoffrey Unsworth's cleverly stark lighting effects. Throughout, Fosse's own particular wit as a choreographer of decadence--his "Rich Man's Frug" was one of the best things in his earlier staging of Sweet Charity--serves to summon up a wealth of period references--the tinkly, jarring music of Kurt Weill, the angular, fantastic interiors of Dr. Caligari...
With the competition quickly drawing to a close. Valentine was faced with the stark possibility of being eliminated from the finals. At this point coach Marion took him aside to calm him down and to set him back on the right track...
...these meetings, more so than letting students on the committee, was that "they never came to decisions by majority vote. Whenever irreconcilable viewpoints persisted among faculty members or with student representatives. Gropius did not try to blunt the issue by compromises, but let instead the opinions stand in stark contrast to be worked out by continuing experiments and discussions. Some of them never found a generally accepted solution while others resolved themselves by a gradual shift of opinion, thanks to new experiments and tests...
Seen through the cameras of Mariner 9, the parched surface of Mars presents a scientific puzzle. Twisting gullies cut across the stark landscape like the traces of a mighty river system; yet scientists agree that there is now no free-flowing water on the Red Planet. How were the "riverbeds" made...