Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Holbrooke's appetite for both work and publicity seemed limitless. At night, following 12-hour negotiating sessions, he could often be found roaming the corridors of his hotel in bare feet, hoping to buttonhole an aide into conversation or a reporter into doing yet another story on him. After Croatia's army overran the Serb-held region of Krajina in early August, he shuttled feverishly from one Balkan capital to another. He was pulled up short on Aug. 19 when three aides, including Robert Frasure, who prepared the way for Holbrooke's diplomacy, were killed in a road accident near...
While the controversy over politically correct decorations has left the house dining halls bare this season, students continue to brighten the dull days of December by decking the walls, mantels and windows of their own humble abodes...
...that Buchanan says justify his social tariff. But Buchanan's ideology won't countenance this solution since it involves the transnational panels of adjudication that he deems inimical to sovereignty. Nor do many mainstream Republicans like this leftish solution. One reason NAFTA's environmental and labor side agreements are bare bones, and barely consequential, is that Republicans opposed putting flesh on them...
Since August, the tightly wound Holbrooke has been at the center of the action. Reporters are likely to find him in the early hours of the morning roaming hotel corridors in his bare feet, looking for someone he can drag into his room to chat with while keeping one eye on cnn. He power-naps for 15 minutes or so, sometimes during meetings while supposedly listening to a translation. Aide Rosemarie Pauli-Gikas is assigned, among other tasks, to pinch him awake at the right moment...
Helms and his fellow watchdogs need not worry; the first edition of the catalog, published last month, contains no S&M poodle collars, urine-filled snow globes or bare-bottomed Barbie dolls. Indeed, the items are often striking but decidedly noncontroversial. There is a plate decorated with one of Mapplethorpe's virginal-looking calla-lily photos (price: $125) and a sand-filled "remembrance box" designed by Finley as a "personal altar" to dead loved ones ($54). One can also buy a cardboard chair that supports a 250-lb. person ($35), as well as assorted candles, lamps, place mats, letter openers...