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...among groups of patients, and this phenomenon can aggravate a terrific problem in mental institutions--getting patients who have recuperated enough to be able to manage on the outside to leave the community where they feel secure and important. For Harvard students, however, there is usually a less stark contrast between a threatening outside world and a home-like hospital than that many patients face. As one boy explained, "Harvard students want to leave the hospital because they have a solid social structure to return to. In my case," he went on, "I was initially given to understand that...
...many prizewinning objects are both readily available and often cheap as well: a 40? polypropolene valve for home water heaters; Neal Small's cleanly domed $90 chrome lamp; and a $7.95 set of "Blockmobile" cubes that double as trees, houses or vehicles. Offsetting what might otherwise be painfully stark functionalism are restrained psychedelic and op-art motifs. New plastics and transistors are responsible for many of the objects' compactness. Advanced technology and electronics also play a role in dozens of esoteric devices, ranging from a portable medical ventilator (replacing the old iron lung) to a child...
EXIT THE KING is a stark play about death, rich in poetry and insight. Unfortunately, as interpreted by members of the APA, King has too much of a whine and too little command to involve the audience in lonesco's tragic vision or in his character's emotional tumult...
...Wild Side. Floors? Wall-to-wall carpeting, once a status symbol, is giving way to area rugs, which allow polished wood floors to show handsomely, as in Decorator Anthony Hail's own San Francisco studio. Walls? The trend is away from stark, white-painted plaster and toward colors and textures. Decorator Frank Austin used burlap in Actress Polly Bergen's Beverly Hills living room; Decorator Arthur Elrod specified walnut wood and marble for Film Financier Eugene Klein's hilltop home near...
...Metastaseis, leotard-clad dancers writhe, roll and wrestle around a bare stage against a stark background. But where the Balanchine ballet suggested the physics lab, the permutations of Ceremony smacked of the Kama Sutra in slow motion, as the dancers' bodies were juxtaposed in a complex series of stately tableaux. The maneuvers, however, were less sensual than static-and, accompanied as they were by a chilling, unromantic score, seemed as moving as a set of judo diagrams...