Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus this action melodrama, based on an actual incident, pretends to concern itself with a moral problem: whether to save the masterworks or spare the men. It must have seemed a dull question to Director John Frankenheimer, who simply shunts morality onnto a siding and concentrates on the conflict between a fanatic villain and an athletic hero, playing tug of war with real trains. The results are exhilarating, but only in a muscular...
...WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. Crystalline images and insights are distilled from commonplace circumstances by the reticent librarian whose spare, introspective lines have won him a reputation as Britain's finest contemporary poet...
...morning light, more than 100 Communist dead dangled on the wire, some clutching grenades and belts of unburnt ammunition. They belonged to the battle-hardened 580th and 801st Viet Cong battalions, and the dead carried new, Communist-bloc weapons-tying the guerrillas to outside supplies of ammunition and spare parts-a sure sign of Communist confidence in ultimate victory...
...spare his aging stars, Detroit Coach Sid Abel makes full use of an old pro football tactic: free substitution. All other N.H.L. teams operate with three offensive lines, alternate them every 2½min. or so. Abel uses four lines, substitutes every 1½ min. "Play twice as hard for half the time," he tells the players. "The big secret around here is the spirit," says Ted Lindsay. "I'm happy. We're all happy. And we're going to win this thing." They just might, at that...
...does seem to me," he said, "that the American people could bring themselves to travel within the United States and spare themselves the sophisticated debauchery and artistic pocket picking of Paris, at least for a year or so. Is the patriotism and enlightened self-interest of our people so superficial that they cannot, just this year, go to Las Vegas instead of Monte Carlo, or New Orleans instead of Paris, or Colorado instead of Switzerland, or California and Florida rather than Cairo? They will find they can do it for half the price, without insults or shakedowns, and perform...