Word: barings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story is told swiftly and clearly; the players, most of them peasants the director discovered in Orgosolo, bring to their roles a pithecanthropic power that few actors could suggest; and the landscape of Sardinia is astonishing, a scene of Pre-Cambrian catastrophe. On every side great ridges of bare rock burst out of the earth, leap up to the sky, fall back in fragments. Seen from a summit, the whole island resembles a titanic skeleton over which man wanders like...
...well. For the privileged few with $3,500 Holland & Holland rifles and fat letters of credit, Africa is still the place for those snarling big cats and tawny skins to adorn a bare den wall. But nowadays, for U.S. sportsmen with low budgets and yens for high adventure, there's Costa Rica right next door...
Hartmann limited himself to the bare title and reference number, thinking that there would be no time for more. Mechanically, he started to move on to the next picture, but General Tanz lingered in front of 'Vincent in the Flames' longer than usual. He stared at the picture, or rather, he stared straight ahead and consequently--since it hung at eye level--at the picture...
...grey-haired researcher continued: "Since at that time few scientists believed in the possibility of transmission of virus-caused avian tumors to any mammal, including man, I had worked for years without any special protection against the fowl-tumor virus, with my bare hands in contact with the blood and tumors of infected chickens and chick embryos almost daily. This could have amounted to a repeated inoculation with the virus, since there were usually cuts and scratches on my hands...
Where have I seen before, against the wind, These bright virgins, robed and bare of bonnet, Flowing with music of their strange quick tongue And adventuring with delicate paces by the stream,- Myself a child, old suddenly at the scream From one of the white throats which it hid among...