Word: spared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cellar below and two walls filled floor to ceiling with Shakespeare and Thackeray and bomb manuals. Sometimes he would stay inside for weeks at a stretch. You could smell him coming, steeped in woodsmoke, dressed in black or sometimes fatigues, riding a one-speed bike cooked up out of spare parts. He wouldn't make small talk, often wouldn't even finish a sentence. The dogs figured him out long before the feds did. "All the dogs hated him," recalled Rick Christian, 48, a longtime local. "They'd chase him, bark at him, growl at him when he walked...
...Tarhunah. The analysts had identified a key part in the boring machines: the large bits at the front, which would quickly wear out as they cut a hole six yards high and eight yards wide into the mountain. These had to be constantly replaced. Stop the supply of spare bits, the CIA men told Kohl's advisers, and the boring machines would soon become useless. Embarrassed by revelations in 1988 that German companies had helped equip the original Rabta plant, Kohl quickly ordered Westfalia-Becorit to shut down the spare-parts pipeline...
...thrilling to trace, on Anthology 2, the gestation of Strawberry Fields Forever--from John's first rough tape, just voice and guitar (frustrated, he keens, "I canna' do it, I canna' do it"), to a spare, beautifully sung take with Paul's mellotron and George's gently weeping guitar, to the slow, sliding version that (when speeded up by Martin) provided the first minute of the final single. All these takes are gorgeous but tantalizing. Let's hear the whole amazing production process--an all--Strawberry Fields...
DIED. MARGUERITE DURAS, 81, writer; in Paris. The author of 35 novels, she frequently used the land of her birth, colonial French Indochina, for her spare but expressive portraits of the redemptive and destructive power of love. Her most popular was 1984's L'Amant (The Lover), an autobiographical novel that depicts the social and sexual tensions between a poor French 15-year-old and her wealthy Asian lover. In film her biggest success was the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour...
...other hand, Newt Gingrich, a confessed Trekkie who looks as if he has bodily fluids to spare, is a perfect target for abduction. Once the Speaker disappeared, I passed the word to people I know who believe in alien visitors: "If you run into any extraterrestrials, ask them if they're holding a sort of pudgy white-haired guy who can't keep his mouth shut...