Word: spared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...becoming increasingly clear that Toni Childs plays only by her own rules. HOUSE OF HOPE (A&M) is a record about emotional battering: in love, in childhood, in marriage. The songs, mostly written and produced with the formidable David Ricketts, soar and surprise; the lyrics have a spare astringency, which is just the right tone in which to tell these tales of burdened hearts and spirits that, against all odds and expectations, refuse to * be broken. You can hear House of Hope pouring out of the car radio this summer as Thelma and Louise barrel along in their T-Bird...
...from diaper and sushi deliveries to kinky romantic trysts can be had with a few touch tones, yet another novel entry has arrived in this vibrant market-by- wire. Why spend hours traveling to the doctor's office, leafing through out-of-date magazines, waiting for the healer to spare a moment of precious, not to mention expensive time, when one can now get instant medical gratification over the phone? Why not simply dial...
...Recall)) where he shoots a woman in the head and says, 'Consider that a divorce.' " Sarandon insists that all concerned spent a lot of time making sure Thelma & Louise didn't turn into "a bloodlust-revenge film." Certainly, compared with the typical male- action film, the violence here is spare and rather chastely staged...
...part- time employee of the state's department of public welfare, spotted a new federal law that reimburses states providing hospital care for needy patients. The resulting Medicaid payments to Massachusetts will total $489 million, enough to erase the state's entire budget deficit -- with $39 million to spare. Governor William Weld plans to award Betts $10,000, which she will save for the education of her two children. "I'm still in a state of shock," said Betts, 38. Weld also proposed an incentive-award program for state workers...
...drama of the Ayalas -- making the baby, against such long odds, to save the older daughter -- seemed to many to be a miracle. To others it was profoundly, if sometimes obscurely, troubling. It called up brutal images -- baby farming, cannibalizing for spare parts. Many saw in the story the near edge of a dangerous slippery slope at the bottom of which they glimpsed an abyss, and maybe the shadow of Dr. Mengele at work...