Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cacoyannis's adaptation incorporates spectacle and visual grandeur, opening up the play logically, to include scenes with the army, and beginning the film with early events which are only recounted in the original. His prose, at least as translated by the subtitles (admittedly a shaky source) is spare and tight, penetrating immediately to the emotional core of every speech and rendering it as simply as possible. What has been cut from the dialogue is most always conveyed visually, usually through the expressions of the actors. Cacoyannis drops the chorus, the most glaringly unrealistic element of the play, although fragments...
...corrosive effects of salty coral runways, hop among Micronesia's six island airports on Truk, Kwajalein, Yap, Ponape, Majuro and Palau. It is a measure of the region's isolation-the nights range up to 1,451 miles nonstop-that no plane travels without a mechanic and spare parts. Says Captain Lee Minors, 43, who prepped for atoll landings on the flight deck of the U.S.S. Hornet in the 1950s: "This is the last place in the world where flying is fun. No fancy strobe lights or air controllers out here. Just dots that shimmer toward you through...
...want tension," an R.P.P. spokesman said. Ecevit offered Cabinet posts to most of the J.P. defectors, but even counting their votes it appeared that the new Premier has only a two-vote majority in Parliament-a margin that seems to offer too little stability to spare Turkey yet another invitation to the dance...
...Atlanta studying at Morehouse College while the Crimson hoopsters were toiling away at the IAB. Cox's Harvard basketball career had apparently ended last year when he resigned from the team, but after talking with Harvard's new coach Frank McLaughlin this fall on the phone Cox spent his spare time playing basketball in Atlanta...
...well as buildings. A simple structure can be grander than an ornate one, and a few words from a great playwright can say more than volumes from a second-rater. No one has matched principle and practice as closely as Samuel Beckett. Some of his plays, indeed, are so spare that they can scarcely be said to exist: one new work is only 35 seconds long and dispenses with actors altogether, making use only of lights, sets and sounds...