Word: baring
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...teeth. From time to time we came to tiny settlements; the houses sealed behind mud brick walls, the rooftop edges curved, daily life hidden from view. Some were plunked down in the middle of nowhere, drawing life from plunging wells. Others hugged wispy rivers; groves of fruit trees, winter bare, lined the channels...
...soon even those delights may be hard to find. Despite the grandeur of the desert landscape, it is impossible not to notice the growing environmental catastrophe. Countless hills and rangelands are giving way to erosion, as millions of sheep and goats eat the sparse vegetation and lay the ground bare. In the end, the region's very remoteness may be its downfall?so few people get there to revel in its unique beauty that few are protesting its passing...
...bare stage accompanies most of the action, and this places the actors and the music in an even more central position than seems appropriate. Though the actors’ movements generally fill the space well, the choreography tends towards the clichéd and lacks the originality that might have really livened up the emptiness. Costumes help make the changes in time and place clearer; but in the end, it is really up to the three leads to carry the show...
...director William K Weaver ‘98-’03 indulged in another nude circumnavigation of the Quad: his ass cheeks were spotted flapping in the early-dawn wind on Saturday. “Nothing cleanses my system and brings balance to my nutsack like a few bare-assed laps when the morning dew is fresh,” Weaver exulted. Incoming associate editor Mira F. Leonard ‘04, heading off to an appointment with a therapist she’d been seeing since her last naked Weaver sighting, actually collided with the cardio-training exhibitionist...
...space and actors' movement. The action in Metamorphoses is structured around a large wading pool, and the stage devices are so elegantly simple, they provoke a smile even as they heighten the drama. When God creates light, an actor lights a cigarette; for a fatal storm at sea, a bare-chested thug tosses a bucket of water at the captain and wrestles him into submission in the water. Some stories are enacted, others narrated; still others are a deft mix of the two. A few good-natured modernisms are sprinkled in, but they never interfere with the seriousness and earnest...