Word: baring
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Simple in design—minimalistic lighting on a bare stage where the performers sat in a row along the back and came forward to the podium to perform—the show let each work stand for itself. Twenty segments of about five minutes each flowed seamlessly into the next, although the works varied in terms of presentation and theme (the proceedings drew both on John Lennon’s “Imagine” and Aeschylus’ Eumenides...
Films about suburbia typically caricature the bare, brittle conformity of lawn and lane; Michael Cuesta, director of indie fave L.I.E., finds beauty in it, intercutting sequences of whip-sharp candor with brief, glistening fantasy. In his critically-lauded rendering of an adolescent boy’s knotted relationship with an older man in the wake of his mother’s death, Cuesta is gentle, but spares his characters nothing...
...better be a big one, with copious bookshelves and an acre of bare wall. The shelves can hold the reports, of which there have been depressingly many, on the nation's lack of preparedness for homeland security. (The three most recent ones total more than 500 dire pages. And the new General Accounting Office report says that federal bioterrorism defense is so chaotic the agencies can't even agree on which threats to worry about.) The wall space is needed for Ridge's organizational chart, for he will have to coordinate the activities of more than 40 federal agencies...
...though, most people seem willing to stock up on just the bare essentials. "I'm only spending money that I absolutely have to, like for gas and food," says Roxanne Steiny, the operations manager of a Los Angeles e-commerce firm. Some nervous home buyers are backing out of deals just before closing. Michelle Dykstra, a real estate agent in La Jolla, Calif., outside San Diego, has already seen one client walk away before signing for an $850,000 home...
...hour's drive?and an entire world?away. At his apartment in the Karachi Engineering University's staff colony, a simple, sober message printed in Arabic and English greets visitors at the front door: ALLAH IS THE BEST PROVIDER OF ALL. Inside, the drab walls are devoid of decoration, bare but for a calendar. There is no television on the TV stand, but in its place sits a Koran wrapped lovingly in an embroidered shawl. The women are sequestered, and a peaceful silence prevails...