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...stark contrast to this expansive dream, Saturday Review Industries has had to struggle to remain solvent. Backers have thus far plowed about $17 million into the privately held company, and more capital is now needed if the magazines and other divisions are to continue in their present form. SR Executive Editor Ronald P. Kriss says that there is a "cash-flow crisis." It is the second such crunch since last summer. Executive Committee Chairman Frederick S. Wyle, who represents the investors behind Veronis and Charney, confirmed last week that more funds are needed but denied the spate of rumors that...
Favored colors are red or maroon and navy blue, dark or pale green, and basic black. White predominates in several hues-stark, off-and creamy-a careless nose thumbing at practicality. The message, explains Los Angeles Designer Marilyn Lewis ("Cardinali") is: "I'm not working. I'm disporting myself with physical pleasure because I have the leisure...
Even readers who agree with the parajournalists of Women's Liberation are often embarrassed to find their positions taken with so much self-pity and self-righteousness, with such bloated excesses of tractarian rhetoric. In stark contrast stand the lean, sharp novels of British writers like Edna O'Brien and Margaret Drabble, and American fictionists like Joan Didion...
Winter Light (1963). Stark Ingmar Bergman film starring Gunnar Bjornstrand, Ingrid Thulin, and Max von Sydow...
...novel so full of stark sillouettes it is too bad when the lucidity breaks down. There are some things that Rhodes cannot communicate: Reuben himself tells us that he is not altogether sure what finally got him out of The City, into the "finished, unfinished position" at which he finds himself when the book ends. He thinks that it has something to do with his sister Nellie, but there seems to be an emotion here that is too powerful and complex for him to convey: the isolation he laments throughout the novel finally cuts him off from the reader. There...