Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MADE WITH the technical advice of three Roman Catholic priests, the movie broadcasts the superior power of the Catholic Church to rid the world of evil. The Church must be running out of devout. Still exorcism is spare stuff for so heavy a message, especially when it is left at loose ends. The history of the devil spirit, for all the attention he gets, is a mystery. You don't know why the devil picked on little Regan. You don't konw why the two priests die. You don't even get told how an exorcism works...
...quarterly newsletter, "Lifeline," published by Life Buff Robert T. Wainwright, a computer specialist in Wilton, Conn. Sample report: "I wanted to find a pattern that would blow up, a bomb that creates a spectacular explosion when the lit fuse burns down." Wainwright himself works hard in his spare time on extending the limits of Life. The paper he presented at this week's 1974 Winter Simulation Conference discussed how the game can imitate creation. Acting like molecules in the primordial broth out of which real life may have originated on the young Earth, some Life forms actually yield self...
Novelist Leonard, 34, is the kind of man who can write the history of Western civilization on the head of a pun, with a little room to spare. That quality has helped make him one of the best popular critics going, as well as the editor of the New York Times Book Review section, but takes some getting used to in Leonard's fiction. In Black Conceit, for example, Leonard offers three different major characters: New Englander Kenneth Mackenzie Coffin, a young Wasp of means, qualms and wavering commitment to the New Left; Coffin's brilliant wife Marcy...
...much of the science part of medicine remains largely hit or miss. One doctor will pre scribe twice as much of a potent antibiotic as another, or prescribe a needlessly dangerous drug. One surgeon will hurry to operate, while another will say, "This child will outgrow the problem," and spare the knife...
Francis did take first in the 1000-yard run, coming in at a strong 2:12. But as anchorman in the two-mile-relay, he could only slice off 40 yards of an insurmountable Crimson lead, to give Harvard an easy five points with six seconds to spare...