Word: barest
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...some ways that’s the genius of it. It’s the barest, most Beckett-like vocabulary that incorporates the theory and nothing else...
...Saunders wrote back and said, ‘That’s the point,’” Mazur said. “And in some ways that’s the genius of it. It’s the barest, most Beckett-like vocabulary that incorporates the theory and nothing else...
...filmmaking. Looking for a way to break what they considered bad habits behind the camera - like using music to set a mood or relying on clever editing to boost a weak scene - they drafted The Vow of Chastity, a manifesto with 10 rules to strip cinema down to its barest essentials. The imperatives included that films should be shot in color, with hand-held cameras, on location with no additional props, no soundtrack and no extra lighting. They should be set in the present - no genre films allowed - and the director should not be credited. In March 1995, when...
...summary warned that by U.S. Census Bureau predictions, Caucasians will only form “the barest of majorities,” in 2050, meaning that colleges will fall behind without sufficient minority representation...
...this Howard Hughes--this tall, gangling, aging and sick-looking man of 42 whose life and eccentricities have built a lurid legend? ... The private life of Howard Hughes might be described as a complete and carefully protected disorder. He has no interest in clothes, only the barest minimum of interest in food and sleep. He owns five suits, of which the newest is five years old; he is rumpled and disheveled most of the time, gets dressed up only for special occasions. He postpones haircuts as long as possible. "I used to be well-groomed," he says ... Since he sleeps...