Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the lush opening shots of India and the ship to America, seemingly suspended in the velvet night. "A Little Princess" is practically shot through the diamond lens of a platinum camera, on gold-rinsed film. This movie positively drips wealth. Even the wooden planks of the bare attic where Sara is thrust after her fall from grace are examined in lustrous detail by the camera's eye, and of course the opulence that surrounds her before her little bout with poverty is absolutely sumptuous. Reality is suspended as surely as if this were an animated feature...
...Simpson trial deals in the same kind of cognitive dissonance. Defense lawyers are suggesting that the l.a.p.d. has executed an ingenious frame-up of Simpson even as they lay bare the workaday ineptitude of the same alleged conspirators. These views would seem self-evidently irreconcilable, and yet the public is said to be so willing to believe in a police conspiracy that virtually every legal expert expects Simpson to walk...
...Harvard, which was not included in Wechsler's original study, students say drinking centers around private parties. Some might even say Harvard students stick to the bare essentials...
...last times any of Nichols' neighbors in the small farming town of Herington, Kansas, saw him, the dark-haired 40-year-old was tending to the small front yard outside the faded blue house with the white shutters. "He was spreading fertilizer on the lawn with his bare hands," says the person who lives directly across the tree-lined street. "I thought it was peculiar...
Later, in the seventh, sophomore Peter Albers bare-handed a slow grounder to third and fired to first in time to nail Engineer catcher Edward Kohler...