Word: barefooted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...potatoes ripen, the Indians will eat some of them fresh, save others for seed, and turn the rest into chuño. Chuño-making begins when the temperature at night falls below freezing. Potatoes are left out to freeze, then thaw when the sun rises. Barefoot Indians tread out the moisture, leave the potatoes to freeze again, tread some more. After a fortnight they have chuño-a dehydrated potato that, with luck, will last all winter...
...Barefoot in the Park, by Neil Simon...
...theater housing this comedy has , empty seat for the next couple of ears, it will simply mean that someone has fallen out of it. Barefoot is deto-natingly funny...
...company are all masters of the "virile gestures" that, she says, "are evocative of the only true beauty." Movement is full of the strain and pain academic ballet attempts to conceal, and each step is meant as a metaphor that tells of the life of the heart. Barefoot and poised in an artificial balance achieved by great feats of technique, the dancers rarely touch except to depict conflict or lust. Each dance seems a ritual from the infernal rites Graham sees in the cave of the heart, spoken in "the cosmic language" of movement...
...that stately novelist who lived in baronial isolation in Oxford, Miss., carving great slabs of novels out of primeval truth? Was he that country squire who had a paneled trophy room and bought English saddles with kickout stirrups and riding outfits from Abercrombie & Fitch? Was he, perhaps, that barefoot gentleman who entered the dining room of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis after depositing a bottle of whisky under the stop light at the intersection of Second and Union...