Word: starks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remarks are juxtaposed with clips from The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner. A look at Hollywood negotiating is embellished by an actor quoting from Sun-tzu's The Art of War. Even the way the interviews are shot -- subjects are often dwarfed by huge desks or planted against stark unflattering backgrounds -- emphasizes the Felliniesque strangeness of the world under scrutiny...
...about the dangers of hero worship. This joint biography of Rose and baseball commissioner Bart Giamatti -- the former Yale University president who banished Rose from baseball in 1989 and then died suddenly little more than a week later -- never quite works. The irony is too heavyhanded, the juxtapositions too stark, the character of Rose too pathetic in his heedless self-destruction. Oddly enough, it is Giamatti, the exuberant intellectual fleeing Yale for the greener pastures of baseball, who dominates the book, as Reston paints a complex portrait of a flawed but fascinating administrator a bit too taken with...
...Some guy approached the stage, took off his robe and accepted his degree while he was stark naked," Wilson says. "He shook hands with the dean and walked passed Liz Claiborne and Senator [Claiborne] Pell [(D-R.I.)] without wearing anything--and no one even blinked an eyelid at the whole thing. I thought it was hilarious...
...court's 5-to-4 vote forces the thousands of clinics that get aid from Washington under Title X of the Public Health Service Act to make a stark choice: either halt their abortion-counseling and -referral services or forgo federal funds, at a time when most clinics are strapped for cash. Until last week, the 1988 regulations -- which bar such clinics from offering either spoken instruction or printed materials that "encourage, promote or advocate abortion" -- were not enforced, pending the outcome of legal challenges...
Just 25 years ago, such stark legal reasoning was virtually unknown in modern American jurisprudence. Punishment was meted out because of the nature of the crime, devoid of any reference to the social identity of the victim. But since then, compassion and political calculation have combined to transform crime victims and their advocates into a potent lobbying force...