Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rice is life itself in Southeast Asia, and this year there is not enough to go around. Freakishly bad weather last year has turned the region's usual bare sufficiency into severe shortage. The result: smuggling, hoarding, soaring prices and hungry people...
...Rock Forest Trust Fund, which now totals approximately $1.8 million. Interest from the fund was intended to finance maintenance and research at Black Rock, with the remainder contributed to Harvard's other forest, at Petersham. But today, about 75 per cent of the interest goes to Petersham, leaving a bare-bones budget at Black Rock...
...about the war and more time to ponder it, questions arose about the unseen enemy. In the face of a nearly total onslaught by the greatest military power in the world, why did these people continue fighting? Who were these Vietnamese, and why did they rebuild bridges with their bare hands and go into battle against an enemy that was vastly superior in the weapons of modern war? Why did they troop down the Ho Chi Minh trail, year after year, to face almost certain annihilation...
...signature has always been one of the primary signs by which it could be asserted that the picture was something special in the world, and by which the painter could put himself into the picture and make it live. Paradoxical as it may seem amid an art as bare and non-commital as his, Robert Motherwell is able to blend the pieces of these collages not only into a formal conception that succeeds on its own account but probes and experiments with signing himself, in multiple ways, as the artist he wants...
...small, stooped, gnomelike figure working in his bare feet was French Artist Jean Dubuffet, 71. He was putting the last touches on his Coucou Bazar, an art-dance event using his own brightly colored cutouts, which will be presented along with his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. "I'm satisfied. Who else at my age can say he is satisfied?" Dubuffet chirruped. Moreover, he likes Manhattan, especially Wall Street, where one of his sculptures has been installed. Said he, relaxed as could be: "It is the solar plexus of the world. It is the heart where the blood comes...