Word: bared
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...walled Old City, which rests like a crown above the new sectors, modern buildings mingle harmoniously with ancient shrines and even millenniums-old archaeological finds. Beyond the restored wall, a few bare and square high-rises and housing projects, built during the '60s, mar the serene drama of the biblical landscape with its cypresses, legendary hills and craggy valleys. But almost everything else built since reunification shows respect for history and nature as well as hope for human harmony...
...World War II. In his speech last year, Chernenko complained that "our young people have not seen firsthand the grim trials of class struggle and war, when the true face of imperialism with its hatred for the peoples of our country and for the socialist system was laid absolutely bare." Such finger wagging does not find a receptive audience among the grandchildren of the Revolution. "That he says these things is understandable," acknowledges a student in Moscow. "The trouble is, he believes them...
...movie begins with a closeup of feet--bare feet, mud-covered feet, crippled feet--in short, feet in their most humble form. It then expands to show a procession of peasants trudging across a barren, almost lunar landscape of huge rocks and cracked terrain. Immediately we see that we have entered the surreal, prehistoric kingdom of Shakespeare's Lear. The next shot shows Lear's huge, imposing castle which rises suddenly and rather unnaturally out of the ground, dwarfing the peasants who in comparison look like a bunch of ants swarming on an anthill. Heightened by the effective...
Their first meeting, however, hints at a decidely physical attraction. As they sit together on a bench in the empty school auditorium. Lena suddenly reaches down to touch her leg, noticing that she has ripped her stocking. Looking at Madeline's bare legs she quips, "You're bare-legged." Madeline explains that she is wearing suntan lotion, and rubs her leg, asking Lena to smell her hand. In this first meeting of two soon to be friends the viewer wonders why Kury has chosen to initiate their friendship with such a decisively physical scene...
...this rather intimate moment also describes one of the compelling forces in the two women's close friendship. Madeline is, in a sense, the bare legged or liberated of the two, while Lena is enveloped in the world of domesticity; a world which Made line begins to show her is limiting and stifling...