Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walking over a low bridge spanning the freeway running below me. The bridge was stark and concrete, bracketed by deserted gas stations and a cylindrical fuel storage tank...
...essence of his report was stark and startling. The U.S. had provided $12 million in weapons and spare parts to Israeli representatives. They then resold the arms to Iran for a much higher price, and the money was paid into Swiss bank accounts. The CIA received the original $12 million and repaid it to the Pentagon. But anywhere from $10 million to $30 million went into numbered accounts that Meese said were "under the control of representatives" of the contras. Presumably, the money was used to purchase weapons that the rebels need to wage their guerrilla war against the Marxist...
...hero in the throes of creation. There is little sense of the penetrating psychological insight of his official portraits, and important events like his rise to court painter are only alluded to, or take place offstage. The horrors of the Napoleonic invasion, reflected in Goya masterpieces like the stark, brutal The Third of May, 1808, are suggested only in hallucination. Nobody claims that art must imitate life. But the real Goya, a man of passion and power, is nowhere in evidence here...
...joined the staff from the CIA last year and now serves as North's deputy. He meets regularly with foreign counterterrorist experts and coordinates operations with them. Craig Coy, 36, a Coast Guard commander, joined the NSC after serving on a White House terror task force. Lieut. Colonel Jim Stark, 38, worked with North in planning last spring's Libyan air raid. He is considered to be more disciplined than his sometimes freebooting colleagues, while sharing their tough-minded attitudes...
...that standard, a Gigli dress is positively brawny. Wearing one is like being brushed by cobwebs. His fashion has an urbane modernity that stands in stark contrast to the antiquity that enveloped him as he was growing up. Born in the soil-rich region of Romagna, Gigli was "surrounded by books" as a boy. His father and grandfather were antiquarian booksellers, and, the designer remembers, "We always lived in houses full of antique furniture and paintings -- beautiful but uncomfortable." His Milan studio, staffed with six associates, is unfussy; his apartment has lots of white space and green plants, and that...