Word: barrenness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...washed-up swashbuckling movie star, raddled with debauchery yet oddly innocent. The man journeyed hours to glimpse an estranged daughter but did not dare speak to her and dismissed his screen heroism as fakery until he thrillingly discovered that it, like all art, came from deep within. The barren Broadway musical of MY FAVORITE YEAR, which opened last week, turns O'Toole's holy hellion into a soulless self-pitier (a deft if charmless Tim Curry) and wrongly presumes that the film's appeal was its setting amid a '50s TV variety show -- a format joylessly re-created...
...hopes, our dreams. Our day in the Yard searching for happiness. A year spent mostly at the Crimson, it's been found, can be permanently damaging--some might say mind-numbing. As soon as one issue is done and we hurtle out of the building on our bikes onto barren Mass Ave, we have to start thinking about the next week's mag. It's a killer cycle, which is why we deserve this space and have, for the past year, reserved it for a little self-indulgent rambling. But, we thought, why ramble with words, when pictures could...
Faculty and staff members covered a student art exhibit in the Carpenter Center lobby with white paper to make yesterday a "Day Without Art." Visual AIDS, a group of New York artists and arts professionals, had asked citizens nationwide to enforce an aesthetically barren day to draw public attention to the AIDS crisis...
...Association, repeatedly emphasized in the 45-minute interview that she was still getting acquainted with the essentials of the University and her job. Her second floor in Massachusetts Hall is a testament to that fact, with walls virtually devoid of art or photographs and a bookcase which remains largely barren...
...contains, among other matters, madness, incest, something very close to fratricide and an abortion the consequences of which reverberate down the years. All of this is reflected in Crick's face and manner -- full of suppressed torment -- and in the eerie, sweetly stated hysteria of his barren wife, Mary (Sinead Cusack), who endures false pregnancies and indulges in kidnapping in an attempt to fulfill her need for motherhood...