Word: starks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a lot to do with the way New York City and industrial America generally were described by photography. When Walker Evans looked at the Brooklyn Bridge or Margaret Bourke-White at the Hoover Dam, they saw hieroglyphs of power; so, moving through Manhattan, did Kline. The graininess and stark contrast of Robert Frank's photos in the '50s belong, as Anfam points out, to the same take on America as Kline's paintings -- a place of raw visual possibility, of collision of opposites and continuous flight...
...entire ECAC race looks like a roller coaster of Rube Goldberg proportions: on any given night, any given team not only can beat anybody else, but probably will. And you don't have to cite statistics, records, polls or quotations (although I probably will) to realize this stark truth: Harvard could easily finish anywhere from first to seventh or eighth in conference play this year...
...instance, in her latest book, one of the characters is named Vera Stark...
...been amused to see that some people and some reviewers have said, 'Her name is Stark and it's a stark story and she's a stark character...
...stark contrast, Wendy's commercials almost always portray characters with a wide diversity of backgrounds. One shows Dave Thomas, the corporation's portly white owner, chatting with an elderly Black man and white woman about his search for interesting foods. Thomas is a real person, and the other two seem like--who would have guessed?--real people in both conversation and manner. Even with the ridiculous dialogue to undermine the effect, the people appear completely genuine...