Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inner rhythm as clear-and at moments as soporific-as a slow-rolling drumbeat. The cumulative effect is massive, finally unforgettable. The death of Joan is a nearly wordless sequence that provides a definitive lesson in economy of style, for it shows little, says all. The Maid's bare feet are seen padding over cobbles. Someone in the crowd trips her. At the stake there is a split second of hesitation: then she is chained, the faggots are lit, and her meager belongings are fed to the fire. "Holy Jesus!" calls Joan, and extinction comes as two priests lift...
...Edinburgh for the music festival, Todd soon finds his apartment burgeoning with Nicole, Elke, two teenagers, an Italian cellist, and some spongy smart talk. As a friend who pops by on occasion, Classicist Judith Anderson clowns with the air of a lady willing but unable to whip out a bare bodkin and turn the arrant nonsense into a bloody good show. Would that she could...
...filled a bird cage with marble sugar lumps and titled it Why Not Sneeze. He made viewers dizzy with swirling patterns driven by electric motors, shocked gallerygoers with a foam-rubber breast labeled Please Touch, brought critics up short by stating that his grand design, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, on which he worked from 1915 to 1923, was intentionally left unfinished. Then, in 1923, in his grandest gesture of all, he announced that he was abandoning art for a worthier occupation: playing chess...
...cautious policy of investing in reliable, high-quality stocks. Despite the company's bigness, M.I.T.'s billions are still tended by only five trustees, ten senior investment analysts, and a home office work force of 39 (including messengers). Result: the cost of managing the fund is a bare $1.80 per $1,000 of assets, which M.I.T. claims is the lowest operating cost of any mutual fund...
Three young ladies, au natural (sic), were being chased around the room by two Harvard lads intent upon study. The bare facts indicated that the boys were likewise nude. And not too sober. The girls were over and under the beds...