Word: spare
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...this Friars’ squad is familiar with that style of play. Providence returns all but four of its players from a 24-win season last year and has depth to spare at each position...
...post on one side of the square. She wears a black turtleneck and pants, and a pair of fringed black boots. Whiskers are painted somewhat clumsily on her face. She mews plaintively at passersby, occasionally stretching in a feline manner. The pumpkin she is using to collect spare change has the words “Kitty, Kitty” scrawled on it in black marker. A tourist barks...
Didion makes these verdicts personal by presenting her own family--Californians for five generations--as prime embodiments of the state's ambiguous destiny. Nor does she spare herself: she offers a probing critique of what she now considers her wrongheaded nostalgia for the old California in her 1963 novel, Run River. Where I Was From, in fact, is "an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew...
...DIED. ELLIOTT SMITH, 34, folk rocker known for spare, moody songs about depression, turmoil and lost love; from an apparently self-inflicted stabbing; in Los Angeles. Smith recorded five CDs, which impressed critics and inspired a cult following. In 1998 he won an Oscar nomination for Miss Misery, one of five songs he wrote for the film Good Will Hunting...
...will never hear those words in my songs." So, on Kèlè Mandi, whose haunting admonitions make it a highlight, Traoré just sings about human interaction: "Give me a bit of what you are/ But do it with gentleness and tolerance." Traoré's spare arrangements use a variety of instruments, including a calabash harp called the bolon, an African lute called the n'goni and, on two tracks, the strings of San Francisco's acclaimed Kronos Quartet. But the songs are really designed to showcase the range of moods and colors in Traor...