Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...himself once admitted in a rare moment of candor, Burma is "in a mess." The economy, almost totally nationalized, has virtually ceased to function. Last spring the state-owned distribution system collapsed altogether, and Rangoon shoppers who queue up before dawn are lucky if the shelves are not totally bare a few minutes after the People's Stores open. Prices have risen fivefold since 1962, but rice exports, once the largest in the world, are down to less than a third of their precoup levels...
...Vegas, to be sure, does indeed have its own tribe of Hair. (After all what are a few more bare breasts?) A permanent attraction of the very International Hotel that Elvis was to play. But while other Hair tribes across the nation spent the summer organizing peace-through-music benefits, proceeds going to an abortive UN youth assembly, the Vegas kids were prohibited from doing anything other than taking up donations after each performance. ( Rolling Stone reports the Hair tribe was a trifle disrespectful toward Elvis during his stay. Consequently, you'll not see a trace of the Aquarians...
...Woodstock Nation. It is simply a novel about two impoverished white boxers whose lives touch only for an instant, but whose careers frighteningly parallel each other. By remaining true to his California milieu, by neither moralizing about his characters' profession or condescending to their way of life, Gardner lays bare some ugly truths about an America which closes off possibilities for tragedy or greatness-a society which neglects the mass of its individuals, leaving them to stumble through life in a comatose state, rarely realizing life's potential, rarely realizing its existence...
...opera is remarkably powerful. All melody pared to its bare essentials, Janáček'a music illuminates Čapek's bizarre tale with a cold, exciting glare. Characters declaim in energetic syllables that leap from one end of their voices to the other, too tense to lapse into song. The orchestra vibrates with intense color and rhythm, microscopically reflective of each dramatic subtlety...
According to Petri, the odor is most noticeable on wet, rainy days, and is especially bad on the top floors, where the heat rises. Smoke from cigarettes is not a factor in the smell, he said, but bare feet are a possible cause...