Word: baring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is only a bare stage, the magic tricks are purposely corny, and the largest wild animal is made of chairs. The entire troupe, including costumes and apparatus, could fit into a clown car with room left over for a family of four. This is far too modest to be the greatest show on earth. How about something simpler: a one-ring wonder. The sweetest little circus this side of Barnum...
...spiritual, exactly, but not entirely show biz either. Their circus began in 1971 in Avignon, when it featured 30 performers and a regulation menagerie. In the intervening years, the focus has become more precise, so that now the whole business can quite handily be contained on a bare stage, within the confines of the 23-ft. mat that serves as its sole ring...
...extreme case that captured headlines last week, a journalist's sources were stripped bare without the reporter even being notified of the search. In Hamilton County, Ohio, a prosecutor ordered a secret electronic snoop through the records of 35 million telephone calls made between March 1 and June 15 from 655,000 southwestern Ohio lines to find any potential corporate leakers who had called the home or office of Wall Street Journal Pittsburgh bureau reporter Alecia Swasy while she was researching stories that embarrassed Procter & Gamble, a major Cincinnati area employer...
Costantino Federico, the mayor of Capri, has had enough. The hordes of tourists who inundate the Mediterranean isle every summer will no longer be permitted to lounge around the famed piazzetta. Nor can they camp outdoors in sleeping bags, walk around in noisy wooden sandals or loiter bare-torsoed in public places. Farther north, on the island of Ponza, a favorite vacation spot for Romans, officials have banned automobiles until the end of August. The last straw, say residents, was the hundreds of cars that rolled off the ferries from the mainland every day last summer, choking the narrow roads...
...dynasty soldiers. Escobar's older brother Roberto was among the first to surrender late last week and join him in his as yet Spartan quarters. There is neither heating nor air conditioning, the four large dormitories are equipped with steel double-decker beds, and the recreation room is bare save for a television set. Escobar will undoubtedly use some of his narco billions to create a more homey environment. Yet, for all the angry talk about a "five- star prison," Villa Escobar is no less a jail than the federal "country clubs" that hold America's most celebrated white-collar...