Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WRCA-TV, flagship of the NBC network, moved right into the boudoir last week with a silken five-minute sign-off spot called Count Sheep (weekdays, 1 a.m.). Its star is Nancy Berg, a 24-year-old, Wisconsin-born model, who floats onscreen in filmy lace, stretches her bare arms, yawns delicately, glances teasingly out of her cathode bedroom, pops into bed and out again for a moment's play with her French poodle...
Denver offered little that was stimulating in Emrich's hobby of Arabic but much in the field of folk music. Drinking in the splintery, bare saloons of the lonely valley towns, he heard and delighted in the hoarse old songs of the gold prospectors and the mining camps...
...cracked, cracked like an old plate." He recovered enough to write part of a novel about Hollywood, The Last Tycoon, which might have been his masterpiece. But when he had reached the middle of chapter six, a heart attack ended his life at 44. Almost nobody came to the bare funeral home where his body lay. But his old friend Dorothy Parker did. Her hard-boiled epitaph, too strong for last week's radio show, echoed Fitzgerald's own tag line to The Great Gatsby. Looking at the corpse, she said, "The poor son of a bitch...
...Leaders. During the war, when demand soared way above production, Anheuser-Busch's sales division had become lazy. With peace and competition, Milwaukee's hustling brewers shot ahead. By the end of 1946, Pabst was on top, though only by a bare 20,000 bbls. Busch was stunned. The next year he pushed sales and production up to 3,608,738 bbls. But still Anheuser-Busch skidded into fourth place. A new leader, Schlitz, took over and kept on top for six straight years...
Both critics and public were considerably more baffled by Welles's tempestuous and unorthodox production of Moby Dick. Set on the bare stage of "a provincial American theater toward the end of the last century," the play opens as a rehearsal of King Lear, then transforms itself into a rehearsal of Moby Dick. Wearing a false nose, and playing variously a theater manager, a New England preacher and Captain Ahab, spotlighted Actor Welles storms up and down the shadowy stage spewing and roaring blank verse, fights Ahab's final battle with the whale while standing on a table...