Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would take some time for almost everybody, even the victors, to get used to the unexpected new reality. It had taken a bare seven weeks for the Saigon government to slide precipitately to abject defeat. The collapse had begun with a Communist attack on the provincial capital of Ban Me Thuot in the Central Highlands, 160 miles north of Saigon. Then followed President Nguyen Van Thieu's disastrous strategic withdrawal, which turned into a rout. Within weeks, Communist forces had advanced virtually unopposed to the very outskirts of Saigon. Forced to resign and flee the country, Thieu was replaced...
...decline rapidly; An and Jackie grew apart, and some of his cronies are convinced that he was prepared to divorce her. His daughter Christina, 24, curtailed her social life to be with her father and involve herself in his complex finances. Jackie apparently may end up with the bare minimum inheritance allowed under Greek law, which governs only part of Onassis' scattered estate; the figure could be as low as $3 million. The Kennedy children will receive the income from a trust until they are 21. There were jet set whispers that the person who urged Onassis to these...
...other living artist can paint flesh at this pitch of intensity, in this extremity of rage, loss and voluptuousness, or with this command over pigment. His typical setting is familiar: an anonymous oval room. It has tubular furniture, somewhere between a Corbusier couch and an operating table. Sometimes a bare bulb hangs down on its cord from the ceiling. It looks both sadistic and as ideal (almost) as Piero della Francesca's suspended egg. The people in the room are also familiar. Sometimes they are anonymous figures, writhing and grappling. The rest are portraits of himself and his friends...
With times bad and getting worse, the administrators of Virginia's Arlington County proposed a bare-bones austerity budget for fiscal 1976. The trash-collection service would be curtailed and school expenditures slashed by $2 million. Transit fares would go up, and more parking meters would be installed. It was an unpalatable offering, so the budgeteers quite naturally began looking for a symbol to help sell the package to the public as well as to the county board, the body that must give final approval...
Diaries are more merciless than TV cameras at exposing those who would manipulate them. The diarist, in fact, plays a doubly dangerous game. If he fakes or withholds the evidence that is his life, he will certainly give himself away. On the other hand, to strip oneself bare is not necessarily to make oneself lovable. Samuel Pepys, the diarist's diarist, ran this second risk. The self that Pepys portrayed for nine years, beginning Jan. 1, 1660, was laid startlingly bare, so much so that the diarist resorted to a shorthand code. The code has long since been cracked...