Word: bared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Melisande, a crowd demanded refunds because it had expected a double feature such as Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana. The company had its share of low-comedy disasters : one performance of an extravaganza titled The Garden of Allah was broken up by the terrified screech of a diva whose bare back was being licked by a camel imported for the production. Most important, Impresario Russell had a way of juggling his bookkeeping and pressing his stars for salary kickbacks. After its fifth season, the company collapsed...
...apparently hilarious farce. Czar Nicholas I himself saw the play and is said to have remarked (roughly translated): "Everyone gets the business here. Me most of all." Gogol and his adored Czar thought it all comedy. But was it? The vein of unreality in Gogol himself had laid bare the basic unreality of Russian society. Gogol, says
...foreigners resisted-not even the German woman who was told off by police for wearing toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants...
...time his main chute opened, Hughes was down to 40 ft., although he had somersaulted as high as 101 ft. A bare six seconds after he reached for his handle. Hughes hit a plowed field at the end of the runway. For a long second he lay still. Then he bounced up and started to shake hands with the crowd of Navymen that sprinted up to him. ''You feel a terrific crash on your rump, and the next thing, you are out on the end of your chute,'' gasped Hughes. "I feel wizard, though. Positively wizard...
...temple exterior is a concrete hemisphere carried on eight squat arches. Within the arches is a platform supported on columns. This raised platform, standing free of the walls, is the temple floor. The whitewashed, hemispherical interior is bare of ornament, yet in a sense is adorned by light, which ripples up from below on all sides. There are no windows...