The colors provide a stark contrast to the dark burned-out shell of a house that sits in the distance -- and offer a painful reminder of the tragedy that befell the people who lived within.

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Shooting in stony black-and-white, he uses gliding tracking shots to follow them across their fields of stubble, through their barns, and inside their stark and bare house, magnifying the minutiae of their labors to heroic, cosmic dimensions.

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The imminent power shift represents a stark change in ideologies: Abbas has long been a conduit of the White House-backed road map to Middle East peace.

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Stark, The Victory of Reason (New York: Random House, 2005), p. 233.

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Key Democrats, such as high-ranking members like Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA), Allyson Schwartz (D-PA), Pete Stark (D- CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, have backed the repeal of IPAB.

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An overhaul of immigration policy died in 2006 when Republican leaders in the House refused to conference with their counterparts in the Senate to resolve stark differences in their respective versions.

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House Republicans should pass legislation now repealing these counterproductive regulatory deadweights, further dramatizing the stark choices for 2012.

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For most people, the housing market still offers a stark choice: rent or take on lots of debt for a house purchase.

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