Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BEGINS HOPEFULLY, the bare, carefully-crafted prose interspersed with a Yiddish irony that lightens its mood. Dubin's wife Kitty has a compulsion to smell the gas burners on the stove to make sure they are not leaking. Once she leaves the house without performing the ritual: "Kitty hastily reentered the house, hurried into the kitchen, fighting herself. Herself...
...legalized her name after two bad marriages. And that is the way she will be billed in a March 7 NBC special, Cher ... and Other Fantasies. The concept is weak, but her 31 costumes and 22 wigs are dizzying. She appears as a slithery snakess and in a bare-belly ensemble which makes Cher resemble Ms. Tutankhamun. But perhaps the best is one in which she lounges like a leopard, and sports 27 ft. of hair...
Three Crimson wrestlers, Rick Kief, Brian Bare and Jon Franklin, drew top-seeded opponents for their opening matches. Kief, in the 126-pound class, lost his two matches to the first- and third-place finishers by scores of 15-2 and 7-4. Bare wrestled well and lasted into the quarterfinals of the consolation round for 134-pounders...
...year 2000, Mexico is expected to have more than 100 million citizens. The danger for the U.S. is that the giant on its southern border will explode in social upheaval. Most of the unemployed Mexicans are landless peasants, and they face a cruel choice: scratch out a bare living at home, migrate to urban slums or sneak across the border for low-paying jobs...
Since van de Wetering lives in Maine permanently, he could have set his story during a summer tourist season or the fiery glories of autumn. Instead he takes the harder route: bare, muted landscapes filled with ravens, seals and deer. He is aware of the violence in the town and casual cruelty of the hunters. But the book's strongest writing is about the satisfactions of surviving a hard winter: wooden stoves, good drink, a safe journey home made in a blizzard. These are worth more than a tricky plot. Van de Wetering is an amateur who is good...