Word: barren
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...four men worked in shirtsleeves, practicing alone on the barren stage, rigid on their chairs, laboring in total concentration to draw from their instruments the warm, expressive voices that exemplify the string quartet. They moved quickly through the music, sel dom speaking, marking cues in their scores, skipping past the easy to bear down on the difficult. Then, with only a brief break to relax from the tension of the severe rehearsal, the Juilliard String Quartet strode to center stage at the Tanglewood Theater-Concert Hall last week, greeted a rapt audience with deep bows, and presented a program...
When the Presidential library is expanded, as it surely will be, hopefully its scope will be broadened. The writings of living authors can be just as rewarding as those of dead ones. And isolationism, in literature as in diplomacy, is a barren policy...
...lover on the phone. He is about to marry someone else and she is desolate. Intimate, anguished, yearning, tender, this is a portrait of a woman desperately trying to breathe life into a dead love. As one critic put it, "Had the piece been played in the barren Sahara, the dunes would have moved closer to listen...
...Francesca, 16). His eldest son, Nickie, 37, has settled down after his playboy days as Elizabeth Taylor's first husband, is now a hard-working vice president in charge of Hilton Inns; but Nick, in the eyes of many, lacks the ambition and imagination to succeed his father. Barren Hilton, 35, -also a vice president-has his father's flair for deals, but the board blames him for losing money running the Carte Blanche credit card venture. Another son, Eric, has worked his way up through the ranks to become resident manager of Houston's Shamrock Hilton...
...beginning so both of us were outside the ring." Inside the ring the battle rages--a battle compounded of human agony and bitter hatred, fought until the body is stripped bare, the soul is exposed as barren, and the cry of "help" is left alone to echo among the ruins. In five years, Albee has composed five rounds in this battle--and the Theater Company of Boston, a new repertory group, is presently performing rounds two and three--The Death of Bessie Smith and The Sandbox...