Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strip of ground between Harvard and University Halls will be a free zone where members of either team can avoid capture by the other. A free zone will also surround each flag, NAC announced...
...Well. it's a very difficult question because he's stripped away all of those things that you just listed. When he works with the actor he says that the first thing he does is to try to strip away all that is exterior. All the exercises, all the things they do. are to get rid of. to take away, everything that is not essence. Tht process of stripping away as a concept is excellent. The problem I find is that frequently what happens when the actor has stripped away body tension and he is entrapped in its place...
...inexperienced two-legged friend. You, mink and sable, Strip the traps from the trail, so you don't harm your soul...
...burlesque. A few bawdy old burlesque houses are left, but where they once were a cornucopia of good, smutty fun, now they are mainly a refuge for the pitiful and lonely. Where Lily St. Cyr and Pepper Powell once performed with lavish eroticism, Abba E. Bond and her Gaza Strip and Terry and her Privates now perform grim, grotesque imitations...
...Anderson Tape's is a standard "big caper" thriller (Topkapi, Rififi) in which a hungry hood just sprung from Sing Sing decides to strip a whole luxury Manhattan apartment house over a Labor Day weekend. He assembles a team of specialists to cut the alarm wires, finger the Klees and terrify any stray remaining tenants. The gimmick is that all the conspirators' haunts are bugged by various government agencies. Though it means that everything from a candy-store pay phone to Central Park itself has to be tapped, almost the whole novel consists of tape-recorded conversations instantly...