Word: barest
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...cash from the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Mine concerns invisibility—specifically, my own. We had good friends in common, Suzanne and I, and so we saw each other at parties, in Winthrop suites, at bars, on the street. But we never spoke to one another, beyond the barest pleasantries. Or, more aptly, she never spoke...
...that had posted decent gains Thursday on the it's-gonna-be-OK news from America's bellwether PC producer and router-maker quickly crumbled, shedding its gains dolefully into Friday afternoon. Taken together with job cuts soaring to ten-year highs last month (and that's just the barest taste of the post-disaster economy - the hold at 4.9 percent unemployment for September is the ultimate in lagging indicators) the Dow had no trouble justifying some more erosion...
This is also, needless to say, a moment of truth for President George W. Bush, the Man from Midland, elected by the barest of electoral margins and held in contempt by so many (especially here at Harvard). His presidency now will be judged not on budget surpluses or prescription drug benefits, but on his response to this sudden trial by fire. Bush has suddenly become a wartime president—and this is a war, make no mistake, one that began when America first stretched out its hand to support the state of Israel, and has continued through Lebanon...
...took a good five minutes for Li Changcheng and his wife to locate Mombasa in an atlas. Once they found it, the pair stared at the unprepossessing dot, trying to imagine the riches that lay on Africa's east coast. Six centuries earlier, Admiral Zheng He, with only the barest outline as a guide, did the same, only his imperial fleet was sailing to a mighty sultanate, at the peak of its power, not a faded port crumbling into the sea. Yet, despite the paint peeling from its once majestic, oceanfront villas, Mombasa and the surrounding strip of coastline still...
...glass cartons in every city and suburban office park. What we learned from those is that mediocre Modernism looks even worse than mediocre Victorian. There's less to look at, and what there is, is cheap. But Mies' work was something different. He found a way to make the barest of bare bones sumptuous and even exciting. As Spencer Tracy once said about Katharine Hepburn, "There ain't much meat on her, but what there is, is cherce...