Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...indeed the subtle touch that comes of the accessory. Take the stole, casually draped over a bare shoulder. In the winter, it keeps a girl warm. In the summer it keeps her covered. In six foot lengths, the stole has gained in importance until it is now one of the most popular of all spring and summertime "extras...
...cause of concern to on-lookers has been the gold Latin inscriptions along the lower parts of the walls, which painters were forced to scrape off to lay bare the wood beneath. Cecil A. Roberts, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, assured the CRIMSON yesterday that the inscriptions, commemorating the University Civil War dead, will be restored exactly like the originals...
...legion had reason to be proud of its acquisition, for the experts seemed agreed that it was certainly one of Renoir's best. As delicate as a watercolor, it showed a buxom girl watching a bare-bottomed little boy as he petted his cat. Renoir never titled it, but Vollard had supplied a painstakingly descriptive one: Woman Guiding a Child's First Steps Toward a Chair on Which There Is a Kitten. The legion, with the blessings of the experts, called it simply Coco and Gabrielle...
...experts quickly dismissed the idea of forgery: Vollard's records amply proved that the work was Renoir's. But who were the girl and the bare-bottomed...
...torture show him up as a coward. Kicked and loathsomely humiliated, Kent retches but refuses to reveal more than his name, rank and serial number. Then he is shown one of his enlisted men decapitated, and another strung up nude and bayoneted, "streamers of gut sticking to the bare legs." When the Japanese officer shouts, "You, now!" Kent blurts out everything he knows...