Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month he took two giant strides toward answering critics who say he refuses to grow up, artistically or personally. On June 5 he began directing The Color Purple, an adaptation of Alice Walker's stark, poetic novel about Southern blacks. Eight days later, his live-in love, Actress Amy Irving, presented him with 7-lb. 7 1/2- oz. Max Samuel Spielberg, whom the proud father describes as "my biggest and best production of the year...
Tales of the oddities, cruelties and bizarre twists that occurred began to pour forth after the return to the U.S. of the last 39 hostages. Some stories were horrific, some implausible, others surreal. There were accounts of the hijackers turning away from stark brutality to administer kindnesses to passengers: fetching a blanket for a young girl with bronchitis, providing cough drops for a passenger with cold symptoms. One terrorist, it was recalled, proposed marriage to the flight's purser; at another point, a hijacker beat a passenger, threatened to shoot him, then apologized and wept with his victim. Passengers became...
...world's most extraordinary border. Nowhere, with the possible exception of Berlin, is the contrast so stark. On one side of the blurry line stands an economic superpower, on the other a nation burdened with widespread poverty. "This is the only place I know where you can jump from the First World to the Third World in five minutes," says Julio Chiu, a bank executive in El Paso who grew up in Juarez...
...nothing less than "a second American Revolution." If enacted by Congress, he predicted grandiosely, it would produce a "great new era of progress, the age of the entrepreneur." Reform is needed, he said, because the present tax system is "complicated, unfair, littered with gobbledygook and loopholes." Drawing a stark comparison between today's tax law and his proclaimed simpler and fairer plan, he implied that the choice for taxpayers will be | easy. In a phrase that became the slogan of his campaign-style blitz, Reagan exhorted: "America...
Protests over nuclear weapons production and chemical warfare research in the City of Cambridge brought national media attention to New England's hi-tech capital. In September, 47 non-violent demonstrators were arrested by Cambridge police for trespassing at Charles Stark Draper Laboratories near MIT. Draper Lab is one of the Department of Defense's largest producers of missile guidance systems in the nation...