Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many of the large rinks, crews of guards patrol the floor, ousting reckless speedsters and troublemakers. Off-duty policemen or uniformed private guards stationed at the door adamantly refuse admission to anyone with a hint of liquor on his breath, and a strict dress code prohibits ragged jeans, bare midriffs and motorcycle jackets. Says Thomas Brown, manager of the Alexandria Roller Skating Rink in Alexandria, Va.: "With all these lousy X-rated movies you can't let the kids go to, it's no wonder business is so good. Skating is the cheapest, cleanest form of recreation around...
...Show Business Laid Bare, Wilson...
...drill for oil and gas on public lands. The price of its output would be strictly related to the cost of production, and so is supposed to serve as a yardstick by which to measure the profit margins of private companies. "The bill," White says, "has a chance, a bare chance, to pass...
...least Nighttown has more frank eroticism than before. Molly, played by Fionnuala Flanagan, lies nude in bed as she delivers the famous "Yes" soliloquy with which Ulysses ends. The slatterns, more lissome than Dublin whores ever were, swagger bare-chested about the stage...
Gatsby presents a different problem. The valuable 20s ambience is there to be tapped, but in practical adaptation terms, the bare bones of the book's plot .are slender. It concerns the tragedy that follows when Jay Gatsby, a mysterious bootlegger, tries to use his money to revive a wartime romance with the rich, spoiled Daisy, who has since married even richer. Their crossed purposes are refracted in the lives of those near them: Daisy's philandering husband Tom, his mistress and her husband. At the end Tom and Daisy retreat into their "vast carelessness"; the others...