Word: bared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Truck, the real is bent into the surreal. Dingy neighborhoods are weirdly illuminated by arsonists' flames; alleys echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch of a bare female torso, and batty headlines, such as PIGS ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, OUTLAW DECIDES: SOUL IS A PORK CHOP, HE DISCOVERS...
...disproportionate number are Japanese. If someone as gifted as Issey Miyake were making movies, he would already be hailed as a world master, with grand prizes and retrospectives. As it is, however, honor in this chosen field is mostly a matter of a new boutique opening and bare shelves before the season ends...
...camera. Fore worded is forewarned: "What Strzybisz has captured within the leaden diaphragm of his lenses is the most obtrusive, licentious, audacious form of sex: group sex. It has been said that he wanted to deride pornomania, that he gave an accurate reading of it (one reduced to its bare bones), and that he has succeeded since these bones, clinging to one another in a puzzling geometrical arrangement, suddenly−and eerily−leap into the eye of the beholder like a modern dance of death with gamboling, spawning skeletons...
Finally, to save herself, she relented and produced a mountain of detail that yielded barely a mound of substance. To what end? What were we looking for? What are we looking for when we ask politicians to so bare themselves publicly? If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life; the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show; and the very devious, expert...
...rival wing of self-styled populist conservatives would press the Reagan Revolution to fulfillment. They would cut taxes even more, stressing economic growth and dismissing worries about red ink; escalate the attack on Big Government, cutting Government regulation to the bare essentials; use the power of the White House to bring antiabortion and school-prayer bills to the floor of Congress and keep them there until they passed; not stint on building up the military and show no sign of softening to the Soviets...