Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point of view, irrational) boundaries. This "sanctified ghetto," as a former director of game research in Tsavo bitterly describes it, was an unbroken stretch of umbrella forest only two generations ago. Since then the elephants, condemned to death by overcrowding, have eaten much of the Tsavo down to bare laterite earth. "Where they make a desert, they call it peace"-the ancient Roman epigram is the epitaph to East Africa's conservation policy...
Houses do not have lives of their own. When they are bare, they are emptied of life. Something has died. In Past Tense, currently having its world premiere at the handsome new quarters of the Hartford Stage Company in Connecticut, the deceased, aged 23, is a marriage...
...likely to be at least initially swept along by the theories such as the one on the origin of war as "part of the price our stone age ancestors had to pay for regulating their populations in order to prevent a lowering of living standards to the bare subsistence level." It is only later that one begins to wonder. Certainly, Harris will be challenged by many of the specialists--this is the inevitable risk of generalizing about that endlessly debated human historical condition; there will always be someone, somewhere, who has evidence that contradicts one's thesis. For example, Leakey...
Rykiel, Kenzo, et al. design clothing that makes women appear as if they doubt their sexual identity and must bare their breasts to prove to the world that they are women. Either this or it is once again apparent that the designers do not like women and do whatever is necessary to make them look garish and foolish...
...Book of Kells was extremely limited: a narrow range of pigments, a relatively small number of motifs and, as the Met's catalogue points out, "no tradition of representational art and no background of iconology." But the early Irish monks did have world enough and time. The bare silence of the scriptoria ensured that. Kells remains the stupendous proof of how, under certain conditions, the hermetic life breeds an ecstatic liberty. In its minutely traced webs of knotwork, its dazzling combinations and repetitions, its mazes and meanders, spirals, volutes, in the fishlike stiffness of its human figures...