Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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BROWN (82)--Keiren Bigby 11-2--24; Mike Waitkus 4-6--14; Todd Mulder 5-3--13; Howard Bell 0-0--0; Stark Langs 2-0--4; Darren Brady 1-4--0; Pat Lynch 0-0--0; Anthony Katsaros 0-0--0; Todd Murray 6-1--13; Jim Turner 4-0--8, Totals...
...described in stark terms the living conditions among Chicano farm workers in California and the Southwest, decrying their "poverty and indignity." He cited high child mortality rates and extremely low life expectancies for farm workers as evidence that the migrant farm system is unjust...
...Bruin explosion was in stark contrast to the first half, where the Crimson did a fine job of preventing the break...
What is new here is the brashness with which Jahn has combined these elements and his audacity in applying them to a government building. He makes a daring and largely successful attempt to draw stark materials into a tumultuous play of form and light. The skeins of trusswork, the rippling stairways and the wafflepatterned underside of the terraces combine in an optical tangle compounded by a riot of reflecting surfaces. Without resorting to molded ornament, the atrium reaches toward a rococo extravagance. Says Jahn: "Elements that break the norm --romance, fantasy, surprise--are what put architecture beyond engineering...
...Memorial Day, the President installed an Unknown Soldier from the Viet Nam War in Arlington National Cemetery, beside the Unknowns from World War I, World War II and the Korean War. In November the stark black granite slashes that form the Viet Nam Memorial near the edge of the Mall in Washington got a more traditional companion piece: a statue of three American soldiers holding their weapons in various attitudes of exhaustion. The memorial is now the most visited monument in the capital. These ceremonies at last served to convey legitimacy on those who fought the war, if not upon...