Word: spare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bright side, Giampaolo was good on both his field goal tries, a wobbly 34-yarder that was on its last legs as it cleared the crossbar and a much sharper 43-yarder that had a good ten yards to spare and tied his career long...
...McNally's best, most moving and personal works. His updating of the Christ story is witty but not patronizing, as sober and cleansing as a dip in baptismal water. Joe Mantello's production--a bare stage, apostles clad in identical white shirts and khakis--is a marvel of spare inventiveness. And the hushed audience reaction at the climax testifies to an artistic success that will outlast the howling...
...mutilators are women, use everything from irons to scissors to inflict pain upon themselves. Many have highly ritualized cuttings, in which they set out the instruments of their own torture as carefully as a surgeon setting out her tools. The images in the book are unnervingly graphic, and Strong spares the reader as little as the victims spare themselves. In one chilling episode, a woman "sliced one [arm] open from wrist to elbow down to the muscle and burned herself so badly she required a skin graft...
Sitting in his spare office at Harvard on a recent morning, a small dugout canoe made by his son resting on a nearby table, Howard Gardner talked about his work and the use others have made of it. A slender man with a soft face and hair flopping over his forehead, Gardner looks a bit like the concert pianist he might have been if he had pursued that career. After a long discussion of the merits of his theory, he tried to sum up his views. "Here's a credo I've never stated before," he said. "I'm sure...
Clinton seems determined to drag his supporters, his family, his office and the country through a long, painful process. If he had the moral courage to do the right thing, he would spare us this pain. He would resign. Perhaps, like Richard Nixon, he might eventually have a chance to earn a measure of our respect again. Unfortunately, resignation is not likely. This is not about sex; it is about moral courage, and President Clinton doesn't have it. RICHARD G. SMURTHWAITE Bountiful, Utah...