Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tour in 1959. It will take him from the tent encampments of Nouakchott to the modern towers of Abidjan in the Ivory Coast, from the arid desert of Mauritania to the deep green rain forests of Cameroun, from the sight of heavily clad Berber women in the Sahara to bare-breasted girls in Yacunde. Scrupulously impartial, he and his entourage of 160-including Wife Claude, cool in summer outfits by Chanel, Cardin and Lanvin despite the oppressive heat-were scheduled to remain about 48 hours in each capital...
...forbidden to emigrate freely. Even applying for an exit visa is regarded as gross ingratitude, if not downright disloyalty, to the Soviet Union. Nonetheless, some 40,000 Jews during the past three years have dared to risk official wrath by filing applications to leave for Israel. Only a bare trickle of about 2,000 a year have been allowed to leave. Almost all of those who have applied for visas have lost their jobs and been subjected to intimidation and insults by police and neighbors...
...linguistic vitality. Gabriel himself, with his constantly thwarted desire for transcendence and his unstoppable monologues on everything from sex to Homeric mythology, is a memorable caricature: beside him, the Beat heroes of '50s fiction look not merely anemic but ignorant. Gabriel, simply, is romanticism cubed: "Scrape your brain bare, like a battery electrode, expose your nerves like a bush of copper. Get ready to sing or die. Or maybe both! And all this out here, these roofs and smokestacks, will turn into light-and you'll see right through them-because they'll no longer be necessary...
...Paris), has succeeded in creating a production, using Beckett's words, that does not orchestrate but instead amplifies. For the one thing always true of Beckett is that he is all essence: over the years he has pared down his work until there is nothing left but the bare message of indomitable life-without obscuring fuzz. Accordingly, of the ninety-odd minutes of Exercises en route, not one was superfluous...
...tiny emission of life from the obscurity of the set, which was designed by Franco Colavecchia. He was more concerned to build something that would hold the lights than to design a work of art, but it is no accident that the backdrop is grey and not pink. A bare stage for a bare world...