Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women on the show, bare flesh is the most effective lure for the cameras. "These cameramen are perverts," says Harper...
HOWARD HANSON: SYMPHONIES NO. 3 & NO. 6 (Delos). Gerard Schwarz, one of America's most lucid and least hackneyed conductors, leads the Seattle Symphony and the New York Chamber Symphony in galvanizing interpretations of these ruggedly intense, expansive and unapologetically romantic compositions that bare Hanson's musical debt to Sibelius and Grieg...
...that silence our hearing became acute. Footsteps of group members were unlike those of strangers. We discovered that bare feet on concrete floors made more sound than soft soles. As an early warning, we wedged an empty Coke can against the fire door outside my apartment. Whenever strangers entered, the Coke can cracked like a gun. Immediately we'd warn the group that strangers were on the floors...
...nonexistent. At Bass shoe outlets, for instance, the customer himself must find the right size shoes. Often the latest styles and fashions are not offered at outlets, and there may be a limited selection of sizes. Nor is getting a bargain guaranteed. Prices have edged up as yesteryear's bare-bones outlet stores full of seconds and irregulars have given way to today's fancy discount malls full of first-quality goods. "You need a good eye or you can still get ripped off," observes Mark Trainor, an Austin computer salesman browsing for clothes at San Marcos Factory Shops...
Although cartoons necessarily stylize human beings, there's nothing like having a visual image interwoven with bare facts to give a feeling of what a historical period actually meant to those who lived it. Whether it's the primitive swamplands of the Devonian period or the orgies of the Greek cult of Dionysos, god of wine (which started with the tearing apart of a goat, a bull or a baby), Gonick succeeds in fixing facts more in your mind than even the most exhilirating textbook. And Gonick is able to maintain the historical accuracy of his work, making...