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...adagio from Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony, naked fluorescent lights flash down from the ceiling, garishly illuminating the entire theater. Slowly the prisoners turn away from the audience toward a distant, fiery orange backdrop.Slowly they doff the blankets that cover t heir bodies; on their backs are stenciled stark black numerals...
...saves the grisly denouement for the last sentence and then prints it in italics, as though that gives it greater shock value. Also repellent at first is the man's habit of stuffing his leisurely, Latinate sentences to repletion with adjectives and adverbs to modify, often tautologically, a stark noun or gruesome verb...
Residents of eastern Montana are justifiably proud of their "big sky" country. Its green-brown prairie, dotted by scrub and ponderosa pine, stretches in austere grandeur to a distant horizon. But the stark beauty of this region, into which cattle and sheep ranches comfortably blend, is now being threatened by America's insatiable appetite for energy...
...SKYLINE at Pine Ridge, capital of the Pine Ridge reservation, rarely rises above two stories. In most rural towns, the stark, white church steeples would go unnoticed, but in Pine Ridge, they jut proudly into the air, as if straining to assume a rightful place in the Oglala culture...
...agile mind and supple body have congealed into a sort of rep-company regality. The querulous eccentricity that has illuminated and humanized his portrayals of kings, popes and other men of power in the past is missing here. After the first Broadway production of Henry IV (1924), Critic Stark Young suggested that it might simply be beyond the power of Anglo-Saxon actors. Maybe so. But the impression now irresistibly arises that this is one antique that has not withstood the test of time...