Word: baring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came to the governor's bare, functional suite because Mechem wanted to show off New Mexico's painters. Mechem laid down only two restrictions: nothing too extreme or experimental, nothing that would offend good taste. Fisher hung his first exhibit in the governor's office in January 1951, has put in a new set of pictures about every three or four months since. The current show includes work by New Mexico's well-known Peter Kurd, who contributed Ranch near Encino, a typical vast, sweeping Kurd landscape. But it also has works by less famed painters...
...Chicago Tribune was puzzled. Both wire services reported that Miss Ivy Young, 25, a London clerical worker had won the title "Miss [British] Nudist 1953." The A.P. called Ivy a "comely brunette"; the U.P. said she was a blonde." Pondering the discrepancy, the Tribune chided: "Remember that reporting the bare facts is not enough. Get a little color into your stories, but get the colors right." Ivy herself gave the right one: "I'm a natural blonde, [and] that's straight from the horse's mouth." The A.P. did not cover the event, picked up the account...
...Process. One interested party who read about this planned epizootic was Dr. Paul Armand-Delille, a leading French pediatrician who owns a chateau near Chartres. Rabbits are not public enemies in France. Their natural enemies, including 1,800,000 Frenchmen with hunting licenses, keep them from eating the country bare. But. Dr. Armand-Delille's estate was skittering with rabbits, so he decided to rub them out in the latest scientific manner...
...Manhattan's building code, there must be no overhang beyond the building line, save for 18 inches of ornamentation. One notable exception: a bare-breasted Venus (by Sculptor Wheeler Williams) on the facade of the Parke-Bernet Galleries. Yearly rent to city for the protruding anatomy...
...became riveted to what it would-some sea-eroded rocks, for instance, which I would notice were reproducing precisely in miniature the form of the inland hills. These and other things delighted me: the twisted gorse on the cliff edge, twigs like snakes lying in the path, the bare rock ... I found that I could express what I felt only by paraphrasing what I saw ... I learned that landscape was not necessarily scenic...