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...Rolls Royce ad features the famous insignia and hood ornament at the front of the gleaming silver car set against a black background. Against this stark but regal scene stands a quote from Henry James: "Live all you can; it's a mistake...
...desolation north of Santa Fe. The house, like all his finest designs, is not a monolith but a suggestive collection of smaller pieces, here a kind of lyrical single-family mountain village consisting of separate stucco boxes for living room, guest room, master bedroom and kitchen. The forms are stark, but Predock's scheme -- a casual zigzag arrangement that follows the terrain, roof lines that vary from flat to peaked to pyramidal, a restrained polychrome palette -- mitigates austerity. Gravitas without menace...
...claws and other whatnot. Referring to no one in particular, Witt observed, "I think every man prefers looking at a well-built woman to someone else who is the shape of a rubber ball." Thomas declared, "I think I have a great body." But the silly argument dissolved into stark drama. Thomas stumbled to a stunned third and Witt...
...stark contrast to the Dole camp after New Hampshire, the Bush team had refused to crumble into chaos following the Iowa setback. After a few days of dejection, the Vice President's men mapped out a new strategy and brought in ace Speechwriter Peggy Noonan, a Reagan favorite, to add a human touch to Bush's bland rhetoric. Bush adopted a man-of-the-people campaign style, touring a shopping mall and a lumberyard, dining at a truck stop and a McDonald...
...fervor with which the elderly lobby to protect their benefits seems incongruous -- and unforgivably selfish -- to younger people who see only the silvery life-style of the old rich. But the AARP campaign is born of stark realities: the persistence of nasty pockets of poverty among the aged, the threat of catastrophic illness that faces every old man and woman and, above all, the prospect of cutbacks in benefits as Washington struggles to balance its budget...