Word: barefooted
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...paddyfield far out in the Dominican countryside, a bare-chested campesino whipped his straining oxen. "Go, you lovelies!" he cried. "Get up, you bastards!" Across the rich corn and platano fields of the Cibao Valley, fair-skinned, barefoot women toted gourds from roadside fountains to their thatched shacks, while nearby mounds of rice lay drying in the sun. In the mountains to the north, a grizzled farmer, Vicente Santiago, 65, worried his head over his ten children, his ten hens, his three acres of coffee, platano and corn-and little else. If there was trouble in Santo Domingo...
...amoral heroine, Julie Christie offers her polished surface to the camera in a chic, showy performance that floods nothingness with light. When she entertains a bid from Harvey, walking barefoot atop a boardroom conference table in tantalizing finery, Christie evokes an image of corruption that might well tempt a gentleman to corporate risks. She is the apotheosis of trumped-up celebrity, an authentic contemporary creature whose every misstep makes thousands leer. Because her passions are only skin-deep, her tragedy is trivial. But at every toss of her blonde mane, every shard of a smile, all else on the screen...
...thousands of high of school and college age youths, the Fourth of July was riot time. Barefoot, beer-swilling students massed in tiny resort towns to celebrate their own summertime independence, and by the time the fireworks were over, approximately $20,000 worth of damage had been wreaked, 90 people had been injured and 800 youths arrested. For the most part, the rioters were neither underprivileged, nor juvenile delinquents, nor members of a gang, but college students from middle-class families with middle-level incomes...
Hemingway with Heartburn. A hulking, hardhanded man with a severe Stalin-style mustache, Gorky is best remembered for his grinding portraits of working-class life in the years immediately preceding the Russian Revolution. His plays and stories then could deal freely with the down-and-outers: barefoot bosyaki (hoboes) on the bum along Russia's great rivers; whores and thieves snarling "Ekh!" at one another in the dank cellars of Moscow; Lumpenproletariat in shiny leather jackets and dull despair. Gorky seemed a sort of Hemingway with heartburn...
...chosen a less convenient moment. The call catches Charles Hayden in the tub, where he has just supplanted his wife; they are getting ready, on this late spring afternoon, for a drive to New York City. His wife, still not quite dry, hastily flinging a wrap around her, pads barefoot to the phone...