Word: baring
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...like the oft-covered "Girl U Want" and, yes, "Whip It." The band carved its own niche through minimal instrumentation, precise rhythms and sing-songy atonality; it became known for its cover versions, which "de-evolved" classics like the Rolling Stones' "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" into their bare structural elements. Remembered by most for their early contributions to music video in red flowerpot hats and by a handful for their role in early '80s art rock, the youthful, clever, oh-so-postmodern Ackronites known as Devo, now pushing 40, have decided to release an anthology. Pioneers...
Another factor was the rapacious overuse of resources. The goats, pigs and sheep brought by the Norse ate or trampled the forests and shrub lands, eventually transforming them into bare ground. Without enough fodder, the farm animals could not survive. The Norse were forced to eat more seal, seabirds and fish--and these too became locally scarce. The depletion of Greenland's meager trees and bushes meant no wood for fuel or for repairing ships...
...worry, Harvard does have parties, at least on the weekends. Extracurricular groups and House committees plan dances (ranging from the tragically lame Bare as You Dare to the pleasantly lame Leverett '80s Dance). The calendar is sprinkled with formals, especially in the spring--look for the Eliot House Fete, which features chocolate-covered strawberries and swing dancing...
...Testosterone has been offered as the symbolic (and sometimes literal) explanation for all the glories and infamies of men, for why they start street fights and civil wars, for why they channel surf, explore, prevail, sleep around, drive too fast, plunder, bellow, joust, plot corporate takeovers and paint their bare torsos blue during the Final Four. Hey, what's not to like...
...beginning was happening," Joseph says. "We built this house together with our bare hands." In the mornings Nereciana would don her black-and-white igitenge (a sort of floral skirt) and rubber flip-flops and head out with Joseph to work the fields. Nereciana, a talkative woman, loved recounting the tales of Bakame, a mythical rabbit who is always playing tricks on humans and other animals. And for Joseph, hunched over, listening to his wife, it seemed that even though life was hard, "this was, for us, a time of great hope...