Word: starks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
GARY: At last, La Dolce Vita has come to Boston. Perhaps the best film to come from post-war Italy (L'Avventura and Miracle in Milan notwithstanding), Doice--to give it the probable trade abbreviation--is an angry and moving indictment of the continent's rotting cafe society. Stark and beautiful, this is no movie to be missed. Evenings...
...conductor's baton, and a singer who wants to be heard has to shout down the throat of the tuba. But despite such drawbacks, the audience at Manhattan's Xavier Theater last week saw and heard as fine a revival of Gian-Carlo Menotti's stark Greenwich Village drama. The Saint of Bleecker Street, as the opera is likely to receive. What made the production even more surprising was that not one of the professional performers was paid...
From the startling first scene on (a statue of Christ suspended from a helicopter flies over Rome), Fellini's use of the city itself casts an eerie tenseness over every event. Stark white, modern buildings rise like phantoms everywhere...
...Propaganda Windfall. When the President tried to halt the Communist thrust in Laos by proposing a cease-fire and a neutral status, with official hints of a U.S. "response" if the Communists did not accept his plan, his countrymen gave him plaudits for his coolness and courage. But in stark fact, Kennedy's move failed to achieve anything against the cunning and purposefulness of Nikita Khrushchev. The Russians have simply stalled on a ceasefire, and meanwhile the buildup of Communist arms in Laos has continued. The tuition fee for Kennedy's foreign-policy education in Laos...
David Follansbee designed a stark and functional set which permitted a great deal of variety in a small area. One of its finest features was allowing John Nathan to remain concealed behind a rock at the top until his last-moment, surprise appearance as Heracles, a triumph of type-casting not soon to be equalled anywhere...