Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Indian movies, not even kissing is permitted, though frottage (the rubbing of one clothed body against another) is allowed. Moviegoers get mainly what Shashi calls a kedgeree (a spicy dish of rice, peas and shredded onions). This appears on the screen as a mishmash of singing, dancing and bare fisticuffs, all revolving around impossible plots in which babies get swapped by villainous doubles and village belles with painted fingernails run off with rich landowners, who leave wives of unimaginable fortitude behind them. Into this unlikely mix go dubbed songs by so-called "playback singers," who become stars in their...
...deals with the founding of The Nation, an intellectual journal of the post-Civil War period. "The walls are bedrock. I sat there shivering and turning pages. The only problem was falling asleep." He laughed, "I haven't been able to work so well since I had that one bare bulb over my desk in Greenough freshman year...
...ocean of ink and enough film to jam the hold of Queen Elizabeth 2. Beyond that, the former vice president is one of the most garrulous men in history. Is an autobiography necessary? Has anything been left unsaid? In truth, not a great deal. Humphrey's autobiography lays bare few secrets. It is an inside story only in the sense that it gets inside the subject in a manner no biographer could do. Predictably, it authenticates much of the best that has been written and said about Humphrey. Surprisingly, it also affirms some of the worst...
Indignantly she turned down an offer of $25,000 to bare all for Hustler, but before the headlines inflated her price, she had posed, full frontal, for the September Playboy (fee: $250). She gave TV interviews with promiscuous delight, and under a federal grant of immunity from prosecution, she was singing like a mockingbird to the FBI, which was investigating Wayne Hays to see if there was any fraud against the Government...
Pinkhasov, was suddenly given a reduced sentence - and even received permission to emigrate to Israel. Perhaps, speculates Taylor, public pressure had something to do with the Soviet government's belated act of clemency. The bare possibility justifies the lawyers' effort - and the book...