Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wooden house, which had sheltered twenty families since the turn of the century, was stripped to its bare essentials. Now spotlighted, its windows removed, it stood trembling in the cold night air, awaiting the coup de grace. Two powerful cables hung from its roof. A sacrificial offering to the cause of urban renewal, the building held the audience in awed attention...
...exist is a feeling not particular to the CRIMSON alone. Many students would undoubtedly agree. Yet it is disheartening to realize that the CRIMSON will reach such depths in its verbal campaign to bury the Council that it will misinterpret Council meetings and, indeed, print bare falsehood...
...when Lowell ran off the "rushes" for some native chiefs, they were "utterly bored." This week Thomas put U.S. viewers to the test with the first of seven new color travelogues on CBS. Gleeful headhunters waded shoulder-high in scummy New Guinea swamps to catch crocodiles with their bare hands; the barebreasted "debutantes of Kambaramba" skimmed along opal waters in narrow canoes at breathtaking speeds, and Headline-Hunter Thomas appeared every few feet to remind viewers of the "increasing perils." There were hackle-raising scenes of wizened, bedizened village elders carving tribal designs into the backs of young boys...
...young leading players (Robert Ivers and Georgann Johnson) are less than sensational, but they show enough talent and training to make the early Ladd and Lake look comparatively sad. And Director James Cagney, in his first appearance behind the camera, manages to beauty-spot a few of the bare places with some characteristic Cagney touches...
...Created Woman (Kingsley International) opens with a shot that promises a good deal more than the picture delivers. There lies Brigitte, stretched from end to end of the CinemaScope screen, bottoms up and bare as a censor's eyeball. In the hard sun of the Riviera her round little rear glows like a peach, and the camera lingers on the subject as if waiting for it to ripen. Pretty soon an aging lecher (Curt Jurgens) appears, and the two converse with only a sheet between them...