Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some pastoral, primitive islands of Micronesia, bare-breasted maidens and wives do a lot of the hardscrabble work and are among the primary breadwinners, going to the reefs and lagoons to fish for the family table. Naturally, their labors make life a lot easier for the menfolk. Women's lib notwithstanding, the U.S. has not approached this state of affairs-which male chauvinists may or may not applaud-but the fact is that women are surging into America's labor force, increasingly doing what in simpler times was called men's work. In the process they...
...canal. We stole it fair and square.") Chevy Chase on NBC's Saturday Night rather sickly reported that George Wallace, "aiming to set the record straight" about his physical qualifications for the presidency, "demonstrated his strength at a luncheon today by crushing a small child with his bare hands...
...sharp enough to figure out that neither the picture nor her character are going anywhere while she and Trintignant argue about how to pronounce "Boston". Though somewhat slow on the uptake, Bisset is of course beautiful, as the film in typical if unsubtle manner reminds us, by flashing a bare-assed shot of Bisset once all the action is over, as if to propitiate the audience...
...fashioned smut happily hang out." In short, Carte Blanche works best when the 14-member cast has its clothes on. That turns out to be most of the time. True, the opening scene has them emerging frontally naked from behind shiny, plastic drapes, but within seconds their bare bodies become moving screens for a slide show projecting brilliant patterns of Op art, leopard skins and whirls of color...
...more serious question-why Carter felt obliged to bare more than anyone needs to know about what goes on in his mind and heart-puzzled even his supporters. So did the fact that he spent more time with Scheer, a former editor of the left-leaning Ramparts magazine (who had previously done a Playboy interview with California Governor Jerry Brown that had impressed the Carter camp) than with any other journalist. As Columnist Mary McGrory suggested, the conversation "should have been off the record with God, not one taped with Playboy...