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In 1980, the historian Doris Faber penned a biography of the cigar-smoking Hickok in which she concluded that the two had not in fact been lovers, but 12 years later a biographer of Eleanor, Blanche Wiesen Cook, offered a starkly different assessment.
The New York Times sees things a little more starkly, saying that the public disagreement "appeared to broaden the gulf between the two powers on human rights."
In starkly austere but elegant contrast to the Royal Bank’s exuberance is German Bauhaus master Mies van der Rohe’s five black steel towers for the Toronto Dominion Centre (between Wellington and King Streets).
For him, these wars exposed the political bankruptcy and strategic incompetence not only of Western governments but, even more starkly, of the international do-gooder establishment--the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the proliferating nongovernmental organizations that provide relief on the ground in times of emergency.
Critics see this biopic about Robert E. Howard, the author of the Conan the Barbarian stories, as an occasion to wax confessional, particularly on the subject of the writing life: "It's rare to see the basic conditions of a writer's existence--the solitude, the panic, the neediness, the unhealthy self-absorption--portrayed so starkly," says The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty.