Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alaska cannot hope to raise taxes appreciably, since it is a pioneer economy trying to attract new industry; it cannot fall back on a bonding program, said the commission, "until there is assurance that the state will be able to meet its bare operating expenses out of current revenues...
...which come frequently in Affandi's bamboo cottage in Djokjakarta, he produces a dozen or so pictures each year. He does them in less than a day each, dancing before the canvas, squeezing his lines straight from tube to picture, and smearing the colors into place with his bare hands. The results are not expressionistic abstractions but brilliant and vibrant emotional renderings of the world around...
...amusing in Congreve and Gay are gradually, in Mr. Mayer's scheme, to be exposed as the sort of deep corruption which only the most sombre tragedy will generally attempt to plumb. The diamond-pointed cutting-tools of the Age of Wit are to be used to lay bare the dark reality of metaphysical evil. Think of Congreve trying to be Dostoevsky--better, think of a Broadway playwright of the 1920's, which Mr. Mayer was when he wrote Children of Darkness, trying to be both...
...stands at the Knights of Columbus meet in Boston, fans peered for any lingering signs of Thomas' accident last year, when he caught his left take-off foot in an elevator and was put out of action a bare month after setting the world record of 7 ft. 1¼ in. But John Thomas looked as good as ever as he took off from his left, kicked high with his right foot, belly-rolled over the bar, and easily worked...
...free canon, while low sopranos, altos and low violins tremolandi move about restlessly. The peculiar, dark tone of the fluegelhorn (alto bugle) is oddly appropriate in this setting of the most terrible portions of the text. But the canons are the heart of the work. These are uncompromisingly bare of ornamentation, often unaccompanied; every consideration is excluded except the row and its transformations into lines and combinations of lines. This might be the point to ask: Does the piece have anything to say? The formal, declamatory style is not particularly friendly, nor are the most ingratiating sections meant for casual...