Word: spare
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When the networks gave way to the splintervision of cable and rock subgenred itself out of the business of unifying youth, we lost our national conversation. Since then, we have been trying to rebuild an Ed Sullivan from spare parts. Television, having mostly traded in mass storytelling for niche storytelling, has supplemented its limited diet of universally appealing programs like the Oscars and the Super Bowl by creating semireal events like The Bachelor and Survivor. Albums are one-week events: platinum albums are no longer achieved after two hit singles snake their way up Casey Kasem's chart but rather...
...primitive bass, drums, guitar and vocals, with an occasional prehistoric violin drone. But the Breeders didn't blow up until the Pixies disbanded, Kim brought in her sister Kelley on guitar and they cut an album called "Last Splash" with a song called "Cannonball" on it. "Cannonball" took the spare instrumentation of the songs on "Pod" up-tempo, brightening it with studio effects. It felt more at home in skating rinks than in sculpture workshops. In 1993, MTV gave the "Cannonball" video heavy play on its "Alternative Nation" line-up, "Last Splash" went platinum, and nine years passed in silence...
...would like to spare students the pain of pursuing an irresolvable conflict,” Avery said. “If there is any chance independent facts can be discovered by continuing the investigation, the case will go forward...
...addition, tempting though it may be, I’ll spare everyone a laundry list of parting zingers, directed at the various groups and people who have made Harvard such a fascinating and absurd place to write about. The list is too long anyway to do them any kind of justice—so I will just say hail and farewell to (among others) the PSLM, the BGLTSA, the editorial board of this fine paper, everyone at Tufts, Neil Rudenstine, Cornel West and yes, poor Suzanne Pomey. Without these fine people and their antics, I might have been reduced...
...Kunzru is as adaptable as his protean protagonist, effortlessly evoking a lush Indian landscape and a romantic Oxford, switching from wit to weight without misstep. But something is lacking. Kunzru's hero has identities to spare but no soul, and in the end he crumbles away. Kunzru's writing suffers similarly: it is the work of a brilliant literary impressionist who hits every symbol, fulfills every gesture, while missing something essential beneath the shining surface. Perhaps he knows this. "In between each impression," Kunzru writes, "just at the moment when one person falls away and the next...