Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short supply. Veal has not been available for months. If a housewife wants a decent cut of beef or pork, she often must bribe the butcher with scarce items such as ball point pens or a few yards of suit cloth. For months store shelves in Czechoslovakia have been bare of everyday items like flashlight batteries, warm shoes, bed linen and towels. Until the government authorized emergency imports two months ago, there was also a shortage of women's panties and men's underwear...
...sham may spend more time looking for more perceptive ways to report. A writer who has been burned time and again for his "balanced" stories will have fewer inhibitions about presenting very openly his own interpretation. As long as there is still room on the page for a bare factual account, I think the more interpretive coverage will go farther toward satisfy ?? ?ntellectual demands of the readers...
David Baker is dazzling as the Ironshirt sergeant, He comes on like Mick Jagger (with a little more sadism and a little less swish), bare-chested, sinewy, undulating for nookie (preferably Grusha's, but any will do). The cruelty of the character, the very unfunny blood-lust of a hired killer, can easily be seen through the thin veil of caricature . Baker's talent, too, comes across in the contrast between his major role and one of his bit parts. As Grusha's hen-pecked brother Lavrenti, he offers a spiritual (at the least) eunuch as pathetic...
...tactic one is knowingly or not, committing one's self to a particular view of history. And if your view is partial, or if what you counted on betrays you, you are still responsible for the outcome. It is this drama of historical responsibility that Merleau-Ponty lays bare for us in Koestler's novel, in the trial of Bukharin, and in the exile and assassination of Trotsky. Such responsibility, and the anxiety and willfulness which it inspires, makes of politics, as Napoleon said, the modern tragedy. One ought not to be surprised then, that most of the personal drama...
...music that would have done credit to the Budapest String Quartet. Robbie Robertson's main contribution is as a composer of most of the group's songs and lyrics. But onstage he is a sedate figure who vaguely suggests pictures of James Joyce as a young man. With the bare trace of a smile visible under his mustache, his eyes often closed in what seems to be creative ecstasy, he stands punching out notes and laying out funky phrases like "the mathematical guitar genius" Bob Dylan used to say he was. Levon Helm approaches his drums with what...