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Word: sparely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nelson will not "sing, streak, or ask for spare change" today, and will achieve nothing and accomplish nothing except for making this point-"that it is possible, amidst all this activity, to stop," Nelson said yesterday...

Author: By Jill Friedlander, | Title: Stopping Out | 12/1/1978 | See Source »

...More efficient," says Baldrige. Asparagus and very crisp bacon may be eaten with the fingers, and salad may be cut with a knife, she ordains. (The old stricture against cutting salad with a knife was meant to spare the hostess's silver-plated blade, which could be corroded by vinegar dressing.) But it still is "heresy to cut spaghetti." Somewhat conservatively, Baldrige advises that fried chicken "should be eaten with the fingers only on such occasions as picnics, barbecues, boat rides and other informal outdoor gatherings." As for caviar, "never take more than a teaspoonful, or you will have everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...president. The precise reasons for Iacocca's downfall are still unclear, but at least one of the causes was a clash of wills with Chairman Henry Ford II. After his firing formally took effect in mid-October, Iacocca was relegated to a drab, linoleum-floored office in a spare-parts warehouse near Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, Mich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chrysler Gets Some Firepower | 11/13/1978 | See Source »

Allen's cinematography also imitates Bergman. Interiors is beautiful, almost too beautiful, as if constructed by someone just as neurotic as Page's interior decorator. The interiors are spare, still and natural, an appropriate setting for this family. But Allen forces the issue, almost to the point of being a farce: when the father's new girlfriend (Maureen Stapleton) crashes in on the scene in flaming red and glitter, the contrast becomes too obvious, almost ludicrous. The ocean rumbles too loud and too often, even if the isolation of the beaches is such an appropriate setting. And in the last...

Author: By Katherine P. States, | Title: Woody Allen's Other Side | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

Apted's actors love the English language as much as the playwright does. The spare, precise dialogue practically detonates from their lips. Bates, playing the paranoid husband, is the quintessential Pinter menace: if looks could kill, the rest of the cast would be dead. He is well countered by McDowell in the role of a serpentine climber who may or may not be sleeping with both a male housemate and Bates' wife. As McDowell's keeper, a prissy old couturier, Olivier has The Collection's only openly emotional scene. It is a shocker. When he falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: One Hit, Two Misses | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

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