Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Aggressive Prudery. Meredith was divided, above all, on the subject of sex. Like every Victorian author, he suffered, in Pritchett's words, "from the aggressive prudery of his readers." Much as he might have liked to strip down to bare revelations, Meredith, a tailor's son to the end, settled for a costume change, etherealizing passion and abstracting love into a distant, chaste project. Still, it can be argued that no novelist of the 19th century had more to tell about the destructive and self-destructive impulses that coexist with love...
...cinematic art, Ingmar Bergman. And no wonder. The Hedda unveiled by the National Theater troupe last week is a special restaging by Bergman of his 1968 Stockholm production. In it, the play moves out of the sitting room and into the psyche. Bergman's stage is relatively bare and expressionistic, luridly lit when it is not dark. On the peripheries of many of his scenes, characters who are supposed to be offstage linger to eavesdrop on the proceedings that concern them. Somewhat eerily, this shifts the emphasis from actual events to the manner in which they are apprehended...
Removing one's clothing in public for pay is a livelihood that is nearly as venerable as prostitution; and, like prostitution, it is almost entirely limited to women. What prompts the estimated 7,000 stripteasers in the U.S. to bare all-or at least nearly all-to a theater full of several hundred men? Seeking to answer that question, two Case Western Reserve University sociologists have reached some tentative conclusions. Writing in Social Problems magazine, James K. Skipper Jr. and Charles H. McCaghy report that the girls disrobe in public out of an unrequited need for parental-especially fatherly...
...Harris poll showed Labor's winning mar gin declining from 7% to 2%, but the Gallup and Marplan polls both showed a continued rise in Labor's edge. Only one sampling, which was conducted by the Opinion Research Center poll, predicted a Tory victory ? but only by a bare margin of 1%. Heath shrugged off all the surveys, insisting that the To ries would win. "The only poll that counts is the one on June 18," he said...
Kunstler, who has long defended civil rights causes and left-wing activists, replied by accusing the Journal of hypocrisy. "Unfortunately, only a bare handful of American practitioners have ever undertaken to put this ideal into practice," he said. "If more members of the A.B.A. were available for such work, then perhaps I would be able to afford the time to be more catholic in my selection of clients...