Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aardvark called A-million-miles-for-one-of-your-smiles. Also, reversing the order, a rat named Frank Lloyd, a collie named Melon, a pair of egrets called Miss Otis. Any more of that from the Caen guru, and his readers will all be like a raven named Stark...
...only one perspective. The Revolutionary attempts no overview (literal or figurative) of society, portraying it with an austere, dialectical frontality. At one point after deserting from the army. A. goes into a strange town to warn that troops are coming and ends up talking for several moments into a stark, dimly-lit building occupied by militants, a surreal scene of paranoia and alienation, in which he is finally sent away without seeing beyond the facade...
...permafrost as deep as 50 ft. If the pipe broke, either by sagging into the mush or by being jolted by an earthquake, the aftermath would make the Santa Barbara spill look like a picnic. Critics also fear breaks at the pipe's lowest points: riverbeds. They paint a stark scenario of rivers, black with crude oil, flowing to the sea with dead fish, birds and animals...
...some of the earlier phases. In fact, the plays are probably more fun to rehearse than perform. On one hand, the acting and inspiration are often simplistic, the verbal content a makeshift, and the net result a series of disconnected routines. On the other hand, the acting is stark, direct, and risky, particularly in playing out whatever seems appropriate (like dry copulating during a reading of the Biblical "begats" in Serpent ). And because the open development asks for a total commitment, the simultaneous collaboration of playwrigth, director, and actors becomes a self-sustaining system...
...reach embarrassingly exceeds his grasp in dealing with Moreno's inner conflicts. What the book lacks is not philosophy or knowledge but a cohesive narrative skill. The phenomenal success of What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and The Harder They Fall (1947) rested on fast-skipping story and stark, substantial characterization. In the end, Moreno's subtle, introspective world seems too delicate for Schulberg's stumpy...