Word: baring
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...phalanx of police block access to Tiananmen Square until a crowd of thousands, led by young toughs using bicycles as battering rams, breaks the line and surges through. By midnight, tens of thousands of cheering Chinese pour into the political epicenter of Beijing, defying orders to leave. Gangs of bare-chested teenagers climb lampposts to lead the masses in sloganeering. A potentially grim scene for any government. Yet every once in a lucky while, history repeats itself not as tragedy but as fun. Nearly everybody is waving a red flag. Chanters yell: "Long live China." And nobody is howling...
...bigger smile, but most of these places don't show up on postcards. The next leg on Sumatra is a prime example: between the dusty, trashy port town of Dumai and the city of Medan some 10 bumpy hours by car to the north, the eye catches on the bare-bones shacks with their thatched roofs and cleanly swept earthen yards, smarts through the smoke of fires that eclipse the midday sun and loses focus after miles of palm oil and rubber plantations. The only constant is a Caltex pipeline, gray and monotonous, elevated just high enough so that families...
...labels such as "black," "white," "left," "right," "offensive" or "as harmlessly amusing as Friends." Unlike many of today's allegedly political comics, whose insights go no deeper than poking knee-jerk fun at Bill Clinton's appetites or George W. Bush's intellectual dullness, Rock at his best lays bare society's underlying fault lines. And there's no one he won't take to task: last season his HBO talk show featured a parody instructional video, How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police. "Follow these easy tips," Rock said. "First, obey the law!" Rock knows...
...Instead, America is increasingly seen as the arrogant bully of the international community. Hearing that hundreds of protesters had shown up in front of President Bush’s hotel in Gotebord, Sweden, to bare their behinds at him did not square with my image of America...
...sick of being typecast and yearns for art-house fare, but that she's comfortable in "the small film world" she inhabits, meaning the commercial world of Hong Kong. And she'll do it all from a theatrical trunk of varied voices and styles: Marilyn Monroe one day, bare-midriffed and yet innocent, and Betty Boop the next, squealing with enthusiasm and buried under a floppy Caribbean cricket hat (of which she has a drawer full). The real Shu Qi? We may not have seen...