Word: spare
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After a series of post-dinner presentations, we drink whiskey cooled by ice cubes cut from some of the spare cores, dating back to 1816 exactly. One by one we head off to our assigned sleeping tents, bunk bags and bags, where the air is only a little warmer than it would be outside. I suppose my body clock has caught up with wherever I am, because I fall asleep immediately, and deeply. I wake up once in the middle of the night to use the bathroom, and stagger outside, shivering. It's 2 a.m., and the sun is bright...
Courtney Hunt is a spare writer and a very objective director. Her film is all show, no tell. It doesn't whine or speechify or make liberal-minded, quasi-political appeals for relief of its characters' hard lives. She lets us come to care for Ray at our own unforced pace, and Leo plays superbly in that patient vein. There's nothing overtly heroic about her as she plods forward under her burden of her small-scale dreams. She's not cynical, but she's not expecting much, either. She's just knowing and accepting of what fate, good...
Scenes of exquisite boredom at school, as the teachers drone on about such traditional crowd pleasers as the Smoot-Hawley tariff act. Scenes of exquisite calculation at home, as Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) fakes an illness that will spare his fine intelligence another assault by the proponents of useless information. Ferris is no ordinary truant. The point of his exercise is not to waste the day but to spend it wisely. Or wise-guyly. So he will spring his best girl (Mia Sara) from school. He will get his best friend (Alan Ruck, who is lovely as a boy struggling...
...booster joints be entirely redesigned rather than just modified and that the rockets $ be test-fired vertically instead of horizontally. It proposes that long-known weaknesses in the tires, brakes and nosewheel steering of the orbiters be corrected; that all the shuttle's critical parts be reviewed; that sufficient spare parts be assembled so one shuttle would no longer be cannibalized to allow a second one to fly; that Edwards Air Force Base in California be considered the primary landing site for the orbiter rather than Florida's Kennedy Space Center, where the weather is unpredictable; and that some kind...
...Milanese family, but at seven she had determined to be a ballerina. ''Because of this,'' she says, ''I always felt more mature than my little friends. A small part of me knew what I was about.'' At 15 she went to London's Royal Ballet School and spent her spare time wisely, watching Anthony Dowell rehearse. She was picked for the company at 17, but chafed at being in the corps. ''I never felt part of the whole, I hated to be in line.'' Spoken like a ballerina. Ferri's big break came when Sir Kenneth MacMillan cast...