Word: baring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, Piston's Third was less strident and mechanized than most of the music he has written in the past 20 years. Hostile critics have found his music as bony and bare as a blackboard counterpoint exercise in his Harvard classroom. But the Third had three movements of lyrical tranquillity before bursting into a noisy finale. The finale, said Piston, was written in Vermont while a well-driller was digging an artesian well outside his window. "I had to write the music loud enough to overcome the noise outside," said Piston...
Like most of his literary contemporaries, Stevenson did his utmost to escape from ordinary, everyday life. But he was too little of an esthete to flee into the world of art-for-art's-sake, too much of a romantic to want the grim, bare world of the French realists-a world whose fiction he described, in a rare burst of savagery, as "that meat-market of middle-aged sensuality." After a spell of youthful Bohemianism, Stevenson dropped anchor in his own fair harbor-the world of Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The New Arabian Nights...
This is the story of an Alabama town named Pineboro, a place of "tasseled pink-shaded livingroom lamps and bare kitchen bulbs...
...Manhattan, ski-nosed Comedienne Bea Lillie ended her day at RCA Victor's big, bare Studio 2 just two minutes before midnight. She did her own offbeat version of Atlanta, a number from Inside U.S.A., a musical show that won't hit Broadway until March...
...Emily Post, doyenne of etiquette, spoke of prunes: "The proper removal of pits [from the mouth] always depends upon their being made as dry and as clean as possible with your tongue. It is horrid to see anyone spit skins or pits into a spoon unless they are really bare and the lips compressed...