Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...essential to the production of badly-needed nitrate fertilizer. The price of crude oil alone has quadrupled in the last year and nowhere is there enough fertilizer to meet the skyrocketing demand for it. Yet 800 million people are currently subsisting on roughly 30 cents a day, the bare margin of existence...
...Fair and Waltzing Matilda (an uplifting dirge about the suicide of a sheep rustler). A choice was made by a poll (in which one-half of 1% of the population was selected to represent the nation as a whole). Advance Australia Fair was chosen as the anthem by a bare majority...
...work with--no color, no smudges, no thick oil paints to cover up the mistakes. The artist cuts his line into copper or wood, and there it stays--he can't erase it. The supreme test of an artist's ability comes as he reduces his images to the bare skeletons of form--for a master puts a power into his line that obviates the need for anything else. Milton Avery is such a master...
Fortunately, the cast's energy and several outstanding principals protect Michael L. Blau's worthwhile producation. Eden Lee Murray does a remarkable job of building the character of Margo Channing even where the script is most bare. A star at the peak of her adult career, she is torn by suspicion and self-doubt, the products of fading youth. What emerges is a sensitive, mature woman equipped with an actress's command of gesture and expression. Murray handles her songs and dance routines with poise and vitality, but more important, never loses a grip on the character she has created...
...round. Close audience proximity places harsh demands on the facial features of amateur actors; group scenes require complex and flawless stage directions in this circular space; lighting is made difficult; technical effects more intrusive. Virtually all of the play's striking visual moments--as when the rapacious soldier lurches bare-chested and vain from the bedroom of the Jew's fiance--would have been as effective on a conventional stage...