We alternated slugs of Leo beer on ice with bites of charred pig teat, jin tup (grilled flank steak whacked with a hammer until it shreds), sour fermented ground pork, and tremendously tasty but comically tough strips of beef.
Tough and stripped to the narrative bone, "Blind Shaft" has a tighter, faster feel than this new film, in large part because it's about men who make (bad) things happen in the world, while "Blind Mountain" hinges on a woman whose imprisonment — conveyed through claustrophobic rooms and taunting landscapes framed by windows and doors — paradoxically helps hobble the storytelling.
"Realism" and "minimalism" — the terms often used to describe the tough, stripped-down movies that have been coming out of Romania in the past decade — seem both obvious and inadequate when applied to Mr. Muntean's work.
With its tough, stripped-down pop- jazz arrangements and unfamiliar material, the album invited her loyal audience to rough it in the wilderness after the warm, soothing baths of her last two, lavishly orchestrated albums.
These days, there are plenty of tough, stripped-back bass experiments taking place at the bleeding edge of UK grime, and TSVI's "Headshot" is a case in point.
Mickey Rourke stripped his tough-guy "Wrestler" act when he tearfully dedicated his Walk of Fame honor to his grandmother.
And soon enough Hamlet has gone casual, sporting the sunglasses and modern-day cowl of a London tough, and later stripping down to his boxers in front of Ophelia (Ruth Negga).
Brian Williams doesn't have a way to coo at Obama and then segue into a slightly friendlier version of the usual reporter's tough question without stripping out his gearshift.
It's a tough thing to strip away and it's scary but I want music teachers to remember they are a musician at heart and that's how they can work as musicians to help their students become musical players.
Cuba proposed an amendment that would have stripped out the tough language on the ICC, but the committee's member countries voted that down earlier on Tuesday.
Some advocates fear the delay could result in the measure being stripped of its toughest provisions.
