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...plays the lead, lends admirable poise and sensitivity to a demanding role. As Indra's daughter, she is taken through myriad images in a dream, a voyage of revelation and discovery on Earth. Canosa uses skillful imagery to convey these scenes. Brightly colored cloths are used repeatedly in stark contrast to the darkness that fills the dream world of the Ex. They portray flowers, knowledge, shelter... Canosa sketches one vivid, transient image after another...
Along Highway 80 in West Texas between Midland and Odessa, giant drilling rigs sit rusting in the winter sun. Gas wells that dot the bleak mesquite- covered prairie lie shut down. Downtown Midland has the stark look of an evacuated city, with empty storefronts and vacant building lobbies...
...George Orwell said, everyone has the face he deserves. Barry Diller had that face by the time he was 30 and a fast-tracker at ABC. His premature baldness and stark visage gave him the look of an Edsel with the top down. And he already possessed that icy stare that made him, according to one Hollywood wit, "the last person you'd want to spill a drink on at a cocktail party." These, and a great gut for pop culture, served him well as chairman of Paramount Pictures from 1974 to '84, when it produced golden-calf movies (Grease...
Students said they staged the protest at the dining club to focus faculty attention on what they considered a stark contrast in student and faculty perspectives...
Tsongas, the ungainly long shot with his stark probusiness philosophy, ran strongest among college-educated and independent voters. Looking beyond the controversies that have dogged the Arkansas Governor, New Hampshire granted Bill Clinton a strong second-place finish (25%) so that on primary night he could proclaim himself "the Comeback Kid." The big losers were two Senators who never grasped that so far 1992 represents a repudiation of politics as usual. War hero Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, an oddly diffident campaigner, offered the voters his biography wrapped in a glib media campaign and finished a poor third (11%). Harkin...