Word: starks
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...publisher's London office. Her manner is almost shy, but she exudes a palpable self-possession. "I thought," she says, with a hint of wistfulness to her smile, "as much as I've loved staying in the 19th century, maybe it would be interesting to have a change." Stark as the differences are, the acute sense of period and themes of lesbian love and relationships unfolding that distinguished Waters' earlier work get full play in this vivid, compassionate re-creation of 1940s London, which starts postwar and reverses into the Blitz. Her characters seem to be taking life...
...Nowhere is that choice more stark than in Africa. Earlier this month, authorities uncovered a large bird-flu outbreak on several poultry farms in northern Nigeria, the first time H5N1 has been found on the continent; more than 140,000 chickens have so far died from the virus or been culled. Though no human cases have been discovered yet, the news that the outbreak had gone undetected for up to a month raises concerns that the virus may already be spreading under the radar to other parts of the continent. Africa has an estimated poultry population of 1.1 billion birds...
Just as in last week’s losses to Princeton and Penn, the Crimson struggled in the opening minutes, getting off to a sluggish start that had the team playing from well behind the entire night. In stark contrast to last month’s 75-58 win in Providence, in which Harvard outscored Brown 45-23 in the first half, Harvard looked listless and uncertain against a revitalized Bears squad that out-hustled Harvard around the court, jumping out to a 10-3 lead four minutes into the game...
...plea, Judge Cashman—a Vietnam War veteran and former prosecutor known for handing down harsh sentences from the bench—found himself up against a classic dilemma: seek rehabilitation or settle for retribution. In this case, a bizarre twist in Vermont law made the choice particularly stark. Because Hulett was classified as “low risk” by the state corrections department, he would be ineligible to receive mental health treatment in a traditional prison. To get Hulett into a treatment program, Judge Cashman had to keep him out of jail...
...stark, open set and spare staging suggests that the characters are essentially alone, and that their prayers largely go unanswered. But more importantly, DHO’s production implies that there is no higher power watching over the characters; the only redeeming note of the story, when Blanche meets Sister Constance at the scaffold to die with her, is portrayed as a small triumph of human compassion, not one of divinely inspired martyrdom...