Word: starks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There, on the stark, sun-parched slopes of the Kuh-e Malek Siah Mountain, was the Soviet-Iranian listening post. Using helicopters, the Soviets had transported antennae to a spot near the summit of the mountain. At the foot of the peak were parked ten huge 24-wheel trucks. They were sophisticated surveillance stations equipped with electronic gear that receives signals from the equipment above. The writing on the spy trucks was in Russian letters. Near by were 30 Iranian army British-made Chieftain tanks...
Zimmermann 's Die Soldaten writes fine to a stark tradition...
...piano. Paradoxically, Robbins is most, and least, successful with his extended bagatelle in the second movement. Into a vivid world of women - the girls in dark red, Calegari and Kistler in brightest white - Robbins suddenly injects the dark, powerful presence of Mel Tomlinson, effecting a stark, dramatic contrast. He then spoils the mood by having Tomlinson and Calegari dance a lazy, dull pas de deux...
...states like Maryland and Virginia, where busing has been widespread, officials predict the legislation could promote re-segregation. On the local front, if expected challenges to the constitutionality of the legislation fall short, the impact of Helms' initiative could be even more stark. More than half of the 35,000 Boston students who are currently bused to school ride more than 15 minutes--raising the spectre that Boston would have to retrench dramatically on its widespread desegregation plans...
...walls of Anne Gorsuch's spartan Washington office are hung with tasteful, unobtrusive pictures of wildlife, as befits her role as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her enemies, who are becoming legion, suggest that more suitable decoration would be stark photos of toxic waste dumps, polluted rivers and smog-choked cities...