Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been under tense surveillance. Only when police were completely satisfied with the accuracy of their tips and leads did they swing into action. They routed the residents out of a four-block area. Hundreds of policemen, Mounties and troops in battle dress were rushed in to encircle the stark apartment building at 10945 Des Recollets Avenue. The electricity was cut off. A nearby school was closed so that it could be used as a helicopter pad. Finally, two hours after the siege began, a lead pipe came flying out of one of the flat's windows. Said the message...
...clarity of the social conflict makes all the little details spring alive. The stylized stark setting puts the barnyard in front of the house, puts the in-laws and the aristocratic lover into a flat beige and gold of costume, complexion, hair-proud wigs. Against them all, Dandin's shaggy authenticity strikes out like a bear baited by spaniels. When at last Dandin finds the house empty at night and locks out his wife, the creaking stock situation leaps up with delight while Dandin exults...
...part it is the fixed writer of public renown that he fears and flees. Each of his tales represents an escape to some unexplored realm of the imagination. In the most recent stories in The Aleph, he has made still another escape: from intellectual labyrinths to the raw, stark world of the pampas...
...attack the metaphysical hokeyness of Ingmar Bergman. He criticized Bergman's social aloofness and practice of "vertical cinema." in which the select existential few grapple with the narrow prospects of exhalation or degradation. Widerberg sets up an impressionist. ethereal lightness as the direct antithesis to symbolic heaviness and stark religiosity. Bergman's artificial lighting comes almost invariably form on high to dramatize each Meaningful Truth (or Mystery) revealed by a superior Creator, and, for all the virtues of this kind of film (and there are, I suppose a few), it "expresses an "apolitical." i.c. elitist sensibility. Renoir-like democratic luminosity...
Noon and the sun shining. It could have been May Day except for the colored leaves. No speakers in sight. Only a crowd patiently sitting in front of a small platform. A colorful sign for gay liberation. A stark black and white one: "Free Bobby and Erika." That was what it was supposed to be all about. But you might not have known...