Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...else has a switch on his terrace that, at the flick of a whim, causes a fountain to spurt 120 feet into the air from the center of a private lake? Johnson's house is a monument to the theatrics of neatness: only a bachelor could sustain such stark elegance at this pitch of obsession-one three-year-old child could reduce it all to chaos in ten minutes. It is perhaps the expression of a dilettante-in the classic sense of the word, a lover of the fine arts. It does need money, but it also demands concern...
Muriel Spark's tenth novel is a portrait of insanity nearly as stark as madness itself. The heroine is Lise, a 34-year-old spinster who has worked in the same office in a North European city for 16 years. Having bought herself an ugly traveling outfit, she sets out for an unnamed southland ostensibly for a vacation, but really to find someone willing to kill...
Seismic Symphony. The California legislature has released a progress report by its Joint Committee on Seismic Safety that includes a stark scenario describing the effect in 1970 of an upheaval as great as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake-an event to be expected every 60 to 100 years. Water mains would burst, elevators stop and power lines topple. At least one of the area's 228 dams and reservoirs would give way. Countless Bay Area buildings would sink into the shifting alluvial soils on which they have carelessly been built; such soil can turn into quicksand during a quake...
...teacher of philosophy by the University of California board of regents. The accusation of murder-supplying four guns involved in a fatal, futile breakout from a Marin County, Calif., courtroom three weeks ago*-dismayed her academic colleagues even while her revolutionary friends lionized her anew. Her situation is in stark contrast to her earlier promise...
...drawings, the desolate Castilian plains of his childhood serve as a stark backdrop for phantom figures hovering on the landscape. His sculpture frequently shows a more whimsical turn, with animals and even inanimate objects eloquently taking on human personalities, as in "Bull" or "The Root Hunter." Stylistically, Sanchez is obviously of the generation of Dali, Miro and Picasso-but with a small difference. Far more than his contemporaries, he kept a firm foot, however far away he was, on the good Spanish earth...