Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrat Paul O'Dwyer, the mayor's brother, Javits flooded the district with pamphlets, a comic book that showed him disarming a deranged gunman and saving the neighborhood (pure fantasy), even a brochure in Armenian for the handful of voters who spoke the language. He won by a bare 1,873 votes. It was never quite as harrowing again. In 1950, his margin rose...
Freelance Writer Gloria Steinem played Lady Macbeth in a Luis Estevez creation that consisted of five widely spaced bands of chinchilla held together by transparent black net. In between was supposed to be little more than a bare bodkin. "I'm supposed to have on one body stocking," confided Gloria, "but I have on three." "I like to look pretty, not kooky," said Chessie Rayner, explaining why she put on a white silk slip underneath Bill Blass's fishnet A-line dress...
Chicago Psychiatrist Dr. Marvin Ziporyn, who has administered LSD to some 50 patients since 1960-besides taking it himself, along with his attorney wife-sees LSD's laying bare of the personality in purely diagnostic terms. "LSD is, if you like, a psychiatric X ray," he says. "With LSD you have no greater vision of the universe than you did before. It no more expands your consciousness than an X ray expands your lungs when you see them on the screen. All you do is get a better look...
...freedom. Seven drunken, machete-swinging Ecaudorans attack the curator of birds at the Museum of Comparative Biology, his wife, and a Harvard senior under the impression that they are government officials coming to confiscate land. The senior obtains help by running six miles through the jungle in his bare feet. The Gov Department makes grades in Gov 99 the letter equivalents of thesis ratings...
...looked after, but on Feb. 10 she went back to her flat to spend the night. The next morning, in an Auschwitz all her own, she executed what one critic calls her "last unwritten poem." The epithet is appropriate. In the last week of her life she laid bare the heart of her art in a clouting couplet...