ISRAEL'S elections, which are now two-and-a-half weeks away, are pitting hawks against doves in stark confrontation, despite the original determination of the two camps' leaders to blur their differences.
I can't think of any three-letter abbreviation that discomfits me as viscerally as EDM (electronic dance music), nor one that forces me into such stark confrontation with the depths of my own elitism.
Perhaps the starkest confrontation came in March 1917 when Leon Trotsky, the famous Russian revolutionary who had found temporary refuge in New York City for about three months before returning home to help lead the Bolshevik Revolution, decided to lead a group of New York leftists in challenging the Socialist Party leadership.
As so often in modern superhero tales, Stark's confrontation with wickedness triangulates into a question of two separate evildoers.
As Fidel Castro and Augusto Pinochet enter their twilight, it is worth reflecting on how the region can avoid a return to the stark and sterile confrontations of the last century.
Richard J. Kerr, an even-tempered, low-key career intelligence officer, who, as deputy director of the C.I.A., coördinated the intelligence reporting in May of 1990, described the confrontation in stark terms: "It was the most dangerous nuclear situation we have ever faced since I've been in the U.S. government.
Setting the stage for his 'tour de force' straight away, Margolick introduces the stark image of racial confrontation made on September 4 , 1957 by photo-journalist Will Counts.
She writes in an artist statement, "In my work I am drawn to evocative images that represent the figure as both vulnerable and fleeting, usually a woman against a stark background sometimes with confrontation, sometimes seemingly deep in thought".
The parade was a joyous but tense event, a mix of roaring cheers, angry chants and some furious confrontations that were stark reminders of the pain in the Mideast.
She doesn't fail to chart the occasions and issues over which the confrontation has been most stark.
Let's say this is a female victim of torture: a visual confrontation such as this, in its stark reality, may provoke an empathetic and perhaps even charitable response.
