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...contrast to the size and splashiness of the Japanese, the next two rooms display exercises in exquisite miniatureship. The galleries are wisely plain--stark white with only a bench in one room and an Indian rug in the other...
...groups by kind and occasionally setting off a masterpiece alone, like the bentwood and black-leather rocker that is number 36 (see photo on page three). This chair, an attractive card tells us, was mass-produced in 1860. Now it sits displayed at the end of a long, stark white box against white board and a black wall...
...settings may alter, but the essentials are always the same: destruction and death, horror and heroics in a brutal struggle against an unseen enemy of unknown character. The TV correspondents, stern faced and looking somehow too neat and clean-shaven, are omnipresent. But their words, imposed on scenes of stark and often shocking realism, seem superfluous. They say that U.S. casualties have risen 15% over a previous month, that the Army uses more than 10,000,000 sheets of paper each day in Viet Nam and, endlessly, that war is hell. The verbiage may even be informative, but what tells...
California contains-along with hippies, think tanks and computerized leisure-a number of anachronisms. From the fall of 1965 until late last year, the vast and verdant San Joaquin Valley was the scene of a farm workers' strike that, in its stark simplicity, seemed to re-trample Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath. At issue were no such modern matters as automation and a guaranteed annual wage but merely the right of California's 500,000 fieldworkers, predominantly Mexican-Americans, to unionize...
Abraham's Choice. The novel is a stark tale that shows how the ghosts of the Hitler era still haunt the Promised Land. In a Polish concentration camp, Nazi guards tell Haim Kalinsky that since his two sons are so "nice," they will kill only one of them-thus forcing on him a sadistic perversion of Abraham's choice. Kalinsky selects his favorite, eleven-year-old Shmuel, to be spared, while six-year-old Daniel is led away to be slaughtered...