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Word: barings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...magazine which calls the naked librarian gracing its pages "as dewy as a decimal system" cannot then be said to embody the Cold War ideological gulf demonstrated by Nixon and Khruschev's "Kitchen Debates." Hefner was a canny brand manager and a social visionary. He prodded the public to bare its darker desires-and in the process demystified sex for a generation. However, Watts may be inflating the impact of a man whose enduring legacy is a magazine often found stashed under teenage mattresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mr. Playboy | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...result is a strange but nourishing stew of interviews, anecdotes and entries from Glass' diary that lay bare Gray's high self-esteem, but also capture his reckless enthusiasm for every project that takes his fancy; his poems, plays, political treatises, paintings, drawings and even typography all deftly recycle the stuff of his own life story. Born in Glasgow's East End in 1934, Gray was always as at home with words and pictures as he was set apart from society by his lifelong asthma and eczema. At Glasgow's School of Art, he specialized in mural-painting before graduating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shades of Gray | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur By Richard Branson Virgin Books; 342 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...understand what Business Stripped Bare is really about; it probably could use a chapter about reading between the lines. So ask yourself, Do I really need another lecture along these lines, especially from some bloke who's also dying to sell me an airline ticket or cell-phone service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business Books | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Managing such a far-flung operation can be messy. On a recent morning in midtown Kansas City, Obama's local headquarters was bustling. A team of about 15 staffers, paid and volunteer, hunched over laptops and cradled cell phones in a bare space provisioned with bags of Lays potato chips and Dum Dums. A pair of disposable chopsticks and a Chinese takeout container peeked from a trashcan, testament to someone's late night. A steady stream of supporters trooped through the door, eager for yard signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama's Grass-Roots Army Win Missouri? | 10/6/2008 | See Source »

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