Word: baring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Beckmann’s own fears—a label points out the hint of a swastika in a bent tree’s branches. “Woman with Mandolin in Yellow and Red” (1950), painted in the year of his death, is a bright, bare-breasted swan song. The 40s are represented by a painting from the Busch-Reisinger’s own collection, which rounds out an engaging quartet. Fogg Art Museum Kara Walker: Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) Through Nov. 11, 2007 Billed...
...gathered in clusters on benches and around tables brought out after the daily ritual of breaking the 12-hour Ramadan fast. As his platoon fans out into the shadows on both sides of the road, Vansandt strides toward the nearest knot of men beneath a sagging string of bare light bulbs, greeting them confidently with "asalaam ilikem" - peace be upon...
...American colleges supply chef-cooked meals, platinum pens, and designer teaching? Following recent stories in the media, an uninformed person (or a foreigner like me) might believe it to be so. While I look around for a pillow in my bare Harvard dorm, let me try to add a pinch of fact to the current debate about the institutions of higher learning and their allegedly absurd amenities...
...Harvard. At a Big Ten or ACC school, it’s the NCAAs or bust. And at a school like Duke or Michigan, with NCAA Championship banners hanging from its rafters, the pressures are even greater.At Harvard, these faults don’t matter because our rafters are bare. At least on the men’s side—the women have accumulated enough Ivy Championships under Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith for both teams. Our pavilion can’t seat three thousand, let alone 13, 751—the capacity at Crisler Arena in Ann Arbor...
...never support racial discrimination of that sort in our lifetime. The suggestion that a white élite school system has kept potential black players off the national team is ludicrous. If you travel to any corner of this magnificent country, you are hard-pressed not to stumble across a bare-bones soccer field with crude poles as goals almost constantly occupied by an exuberant squad of soccer-crazed black youths. Why have the supposedly rugby-suppressed black South Africans not busied themselves with carving out rugby fields? The equipment required is the same, after all. Why are our soccer stadiums...