Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Penn's world, reputation counts for more than celebrity, and fame is no laughing matter. Posed against bare backgrounds and pressed by mortal shadows, his stalwart artists and writers are icons of modernism at its most brave, clean and reverent. Their solemnity may be a pose in itself, but it has its metaphorical power. Penn's fashion shots take on greater weight in the company of his portraits; the passage of time seems to hang over them both. They in turn magnify the effect of a third kind of picture that he started taking in 1967, when he began...
Harkin will urge a return home, criticizing Bush's obsession with foreign policy and his corresponding neglect of domestic affairs. He will argue that the Bush administration's bare domestic agenda should be filled with solutions to crises of health care, drugs, poverty, unemployment and infrastructure...
...blocks away, the Inn at Harvard, still has bare walls and floors, sans furniture. The red-brick Inn, facing Massachusetts Ave. on the site of the old Gulf station, is architecturally similar to DeWolfe, its facade vaguely resembling that of Lehman Hall...
...blocks away, the Inn at Harvard, still has bare walls and floors, sans furniture. The red-brick Inn, facing Massachusetts Ave. on the site of the old Gulf station, is architecturally similar to DeWolfe, its facade vaguely resembling that of Lehman Hall...
Flushed with their victory on the barricades of Moscow, the resurgent Russians, led by Boris Yeltsin, seemed to have had other plans in mind for the President once they restored him to power. Yeltsin has been thinking of a considerably weakened role for his former rival in a future bare-bones Union: Gorbachev glad-handing visiting heads of state, Gorbachev keeping the country's electric grid in working order or Gorbachev making certain the trains run on time. As one brazen Russian slogan put it, "Misha, don't forget under whose flag you were rescued...