Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eisenhower: I have had many talks with Barry Goldwater. He plans to release a statement today that should erase all doubts any of us may have had about him. I assure you it is not a bland one, but a strong one. Let's bare our souls today and get down to meaningful issues...
Harakiri. Kneeling in starched white death robes on a mat in the sacred garden, the desperate young warrior strips himself bare to the waist. He seizes a short sword, plunges it into his abdomen once. Twice. Three times. Four. He falls over the gory weapon. "Behead me!" he pleads, but before the last merciful blow is delivered he has bitten off his tongue...
Performing on a bare set, the near-naked dancers themselves become the arched doorway through which the Emperor flees in panic, the stones he overturns looking for buried food, the forest trees and river he encounters during the dark night, and the visions that plague and terrorize him. Daniel Nagrin's superb choreography is enhanced by William Batchelder's expert lighting...
There are 50,000 Negroes on New York City's civil service rolls, and the city has one out of every nine working Negroes on its payroll. But Negro unemployment runs twice as high in Harlem as elsewhere, and most of the jobs that are open pay bare subsistence wages. "You go down to the employment agency, and you can't get a job," says one Negro. "They don't have a job for you." Automation heightened the problem, throwing thousands of elevator operators, ditchdiggers and countermen out of work...
...Bare Subsistence. Kitchens may be clean, but they are also bare. The people still subsist on cabbage and rice, although good harvests have ended the near famine of the early '60s. Sugar and wheat are still rationed, but ice cream and cakes are plentiful and cheap, and the stalls at the central markets are banked high with ornamental heaps of vegetables, meat, tiny eggs and fish. "China has not forgotten how to eat," one tourist was told by his guide. Nor has it forgotten how to cook-for those who can pay for it. The once-great cuisine...