Word: spare
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...song, though, he junked; he decided that its elevating emotions didn't suit the urgency of the moment and replaced it with a more conventionally rousing finale, "We're on Our Way to France" ("There's not a minute to spare... You bet we wanna be there - Goodbye"). The rejected song was "God Bless America," and when it was composed, in the last months of the War to End All Wars, it had a more martial flavor: "Stand beside her/ And guide her/To the right with a light from above/ Make her victorious on land and foam..." America...
...NIKE, FREESTYLE Was it a commercial? Was it a music video? And did anybody care? These breathtaking TV spots, a 2 1/2-minute extended version of which ran on MTV, barely mentioned the product, except for a flash of the swoosh logo. Instead, against a spare backdrop, they showed expert dribblers dexterously pounding basketballs and executing trick maneuvers. Call it basketballet. The squeak of their soles and the thump of rubber provided a primal, trance-inducing soundtrack (with some help from hip-hop legend Afrika Bambaataa). The message: Sport is music. Sport is dance. Sport is art. And so was this...
...HIRE In five short online films by directors including Ang Lee and Guy Ritchie, a chauffeur undertakes different missions. The common thread: spare story lines, action, high production values...oh, and the car. BMW aimed the pricey campaign at computer-addicted upscale buyers. For everyone else, it was reason to shell out--for high-speed Internet hookups...
...HSTO that includes these services but costs students much less will take time and energy, but a first step for the University would be to step up and pay its own debt. And the next time my mailbox is graced with that familiar envelope, I’ll spare HSTO my curses—those will go to the University...
...tariffs. Go down that road and you get a trade war, not to mention the other-shoe problem of cheaper Nissans made with cheaper foreign steel needing tariffs of their own to spare GM. It ain't quotas - raising product prices to prop up commodity prices is not a smart way to grow an economy in which services are 80 percent of GDP and consumers pull 66 percent of the economic weight. And Paul O'Neill going to Japan and telling them to shut down two plants so two can live in West Virginia? A superpower that believes...