Word: starks
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...male counterparts. The Bee's tradition of donating a book to the group's collection moves in the direction of an intellectualism eschewed by the final clubs. The effort (transparent as it may be) to encourage diversity betrays some vague awareness of reality that stands out in stark comparison to that held by Douglas Sears '69, president of the Interclub Council, who legitimizes the final clubs by maintaining, "Men have always wanted a place of their own where they wouldn't have to compete with women...
...Steven Stark, in an essay from the December issue of The New Republic, also framed his analysis of the show in terms of gender, but was not as kind. He explains how the show has spawned numerous debates, including a discussion of "Whether Ally herself... is a betrayal of just about everything the Women's movement was once trying to achieve." Stark argues that "Ally McBeal's contempt for women is about as loathsome as TV gets." On the other hand, he praises the show, noting that it is a drama about a working woman's life, a rarity...
...weeks ago, he marked his 19th birthday behind bars. He had little to celebrate. He's on death row at Louisiana State Prison at Angola, a former plantation turned high-security prison that was made infamous by the movie Dead Man Walking. Cousin's cell is small and stark, with cement floors, a metal sleeping bunk and a squat, steel toilet. He is locked in his cell 23 hours a day, with a one-hour break to exercise or use the telephone. Meals are pushed through a slot in the door: breakfast at 5:30 a.m., lunch...
...earlier novels, a melange of high literary rhetoric and plain talk. She can turn pecan shelling into poetry: "the tick of nut meat tossed in the bowl, cooking utensils in eternal adjustment, insect whisper, the argue of long grass, the faraway cough of cornstalks." She captures the stark geography surrounding Ruby: "This land is flat as a hoof, open as a baby's mouth." And she builds Ruby practically brick by brick: its streets (named after the four Gospels), the three churches (Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal) ministering to a population...
...dotted with fountains, is a cultural mecca. Roughly hewn stones unify the five museum buildings, while the Central Garden's zigzag path leads to a floating maze of azaleas beneath a waterfall. Designed by noted landscape architect Robert Irwin, the elegance of the Central Garden is matched in the stark beauty of the cacti on the South Promontory, inaccessibly placed so that they their spiked, vertical forms resonate with the skyscrapers visible on Wilshire Boulevard and in the distant Center City...