Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ELVIRA MADIGAN. This elegiac pastorale, directed by Sweden's Bo Widerberg, based on the true story of a cavalry officer's hopeless love affair with a circus tightrope walker, is spare and elegant, with outstanding sensitivity of texture, color and light...
...become a candidate," he predicted "a close, hard fight in this state" that "I don't expect to lose." Both in New Hampshire and Chicago, his next stop on the way to Wisconsin, he was a genial, relaxed version of the old uptight campaigner. He even had some spare empathy for Johnson ("I've had a few problems with the intellectuals myself"), and in discussing the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam, Nixon sounded as if he had employed Dean Rusk's speechwriter. "But," said Nixon, "never has such awesome military power been used so ineffectively...
ELVIRA MADIGAN. This elegiac pastorale, directed by Sweden's Bo Widerberg, based on the true story of a cavalry officer's hopeless love affair with a circus tightrope walker, is spare and elegant, with great sensitivity of texture, color and light...
...from France, India, Ecuador and Cuba. Mass Art started out last year offering inflatable vinyl pillows for $1. After expanding into tote bags and bubble earrings, it is now making an $80 chair and a $20 table. The chair consists simply of four clear vinyl pillows nesting in a spare aluminum frame, and anybody who sits in one looks like a master of levitation...
...pillows, which form the seat, arms and back, are chemically treated so that the worst thing a cigarette ember can do is burn a hole. If that happens, the pillow is unhooked and a $5 spare substituted. Those with weak lungs can inflate the cushion by attaching it to a hair dryer or the exhaust opening of a vacuum cleaner. Mass Art's next project is a kit of inflatable chairs, sofas, and tables that can furnish an entire living room but be packed into a crate 5 ft. on a side...