Word: starks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Month Club Author W.S. Kuniczak (The Thousand Hour Day) was arrested last December for smuggling 160 Ibs. of hash into Greece; he is presently serving a 4½-year sentence on the island of Corfu. Playboy's December Playmate Gloria Root, 21, currently graces Athens' stark Averoff prison, where she is serving a ten-month sentence for crossing into Greece from Turkey with 38 Ibs. of hash. Nearly all of the amateur smugglers are under 30, but surprisingly few are drifters or dropouts. One of three young Americans who have been cooling their heels in Beirut...
...Muni in Inherit the Wind,' I got sick to my stomach. I got nervous and unhappy about the whole thing." Says Jimmy Stewart, now starring in the Broadway revival of Harvey: "I've never been able to overcome the fear thing. The anticipation of acting is just stark terror...
...apparently meaningless capitulations we make in everyday life. But Report is better than allegory; unlike all those Profound Question-obsessed Bergman films you can't just plug in a simple meaning for each of the characters and explain the film away. The reason for this lies in the sinister, stark quality of Nemec's style, his refusal to locate any action with an establishing shot or relax the rigorous, inexorable pacing of his cutting-the most mundane activities thereby acquiring frightening overtones. And overlaid is a soundtrack which places each image at one inexplicable remove. Beginning with a parody...
That one of the patients finally succeeds in committing suicide is stark tragedy. That another has reached the point where he is able to mourn death sounds a call of hope. Who has never heard an inner voice beckoning him to acts of madness? David Sawyer's film pierces the darkness that results when other voices overwhelm the rational mind...
...used to speculate about how the Beatles would break up and we imagined it would be some kind of a definite, apocalyptic event. But things happen so naturally in real life. Under our noses the Beatles drifted apart and we didn't even see it happening. Just suddenly the stark realization one day that the Beatles of old are no longer the same. Lennon and McCartney (not to mention Mr. Starr) have revealed themselves to be so far apart these days that it is almost hard to believe that they were once together. I guess we'll just have...