Word: baring
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MILES DAVIS (1926-1991) Kind of Blue, Davis' landmark 1959 recording with John Coltrane and Cannonball Adderley, was the apotheosis of Cool Jazz. Distilling the music to an almost bare essence, Davis and arranger Bill Evans created a lean, sensuous sound that broke with the intensity of bebop and attracted thousands of new listeners to jazz. Davis' warm, amber tone was the model for a generation of trumpeters...
...letter provides the bare bones of the process, leaving junior Faculty scrambling to try to obtain additional information from friends among the senior Faculty...
Gentility also applied to parts of the bodythat could or could not be bared in public. Muchto my surprise, one spring day, I discovered thatin addition to all the commonly accepted partsthat should not be bared, there were others that Ihad not been warned about. A classmate and I werehappily taking advantage of a surprisingly earlywarm day in April by sunning ourselves on thegrass in the Radcliffe Yard without shoes andsocks. We were soon confronted by a messenger fromDean Cronkhite, whose office overlooked the Yard,warning us that exposing bare feet in public was agross violation of Radcliffe's code...
...uprising that unsettled all of India. On Dec. 6, 1992, thousands of Hindu zealots stormed a 464-year-old Muslim house of worship in Uttar Pradesh state called the Babri mosque and razed it, many of them ripping at the stones and mortar with their bare hands. Subsequent Hindu-Muslim rioting across the country left more than 1,000 dead. When the mosque was destroyed--according to legend, it had been built on the birthplace of the Hindu god-king Ram--many feared that if the leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party who egged on the fanatics ever came...
Poor Joel Klein. It's less than two days after he spearheaded the Fed-state attack on Microsoft -- the largest antitrust lawsuit of the century -- and the trustbusting assistant attorney general has announced that his cupboard is bare. Apparently a 275-strong legal staff and $95 million in government funding is not enough in these days of monopoly and merger, and Klein requires a budget boost of "certainly several million dollars...