Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Judy Slattum (Chronicle; hardcover, $29.95; paperback, $18.95). According to the Balinese, their religion is monotheistic; but their God "takes as many forms as the sun has rays." The most dramatic of those forms are here, along with scores of other stark, comic or beautiful masks. Each is exquisitely carved; all express the yearning of an ancient and still dynamic culture...
...production values of Black Snow scream for attention. The stark stage design by Antony McDonald and lighting design by Scott Zielinski are stunning in combination, but unlike other grand gestures like the sets for When We Dead Awaken and Misalliance, these sets aren't particularly illuminating of the themes or larger symbols at work in the play. The conversion of the ART stage into backstage at the Moscow Art Theatre is the one meaningfully creative exception...
When Germany invaded his country, the choices confronting French director Marcel Carne were stark: he could stay and make movies as though nothing were happening and be accused of collaborating, or he could flee to someplace where he could not speak the language well enough to create. Carne stayed. The chief result, Les Enfants du Paradis (1945), is a splendid sentimental tribute to 19th century populist theater, and to the acrobats, clowns, pantomimists and courtesans who created a street life to counter the staid classicism of the Comedie Francaise...
...addition to the stark world view he presents in his latest literary offering Days of Obligation, Richard Rodriguez had plenty of opinions to share with The Crimson in a recent interview...
...Bill Clinton really believed that the numbers in his economic plan would add up. Or maybe he was exercising the political campaigner's God-given right to fudge and exaggerate. Either way, those days are gone. Now that he's President-elect, his relatively pain-free prescriptions face a stark reality as they make the transition from promise to practice...