Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...songs we would want to record." They also found a common thread in all the material. "There are a lot of songs about being alienated, about being a stranger," Faithfull says, and she dipped back into her own past for one of the album's most memorable cuts, a spare and unsparing remake of the Stones' As Tears Go By. "I always had a resentment toward it," she admits. "I always childishly thought that was where my problems started, with that damn song." This new version captures the song's melancholy, its strangeness. "I finally realized that...
...personality, talent and hard work all helped bring the latest crop of & dog talent to the fore. Bijoux, for instance, "looks as if they built her from spare parts," says Hooperman's executive producer, Rick Kellard. He adds, "This sounds kind of surrealistic, but the dog can do almost everything...
...stuffed with a tape recorder that is activated when a child squeezes its hand. The doll supervises the bedtime ritual: "Did you remember to brush your teeth?" and "Is the light turned out?" As it asks about the child's day, the questions are punctuated with suggestive yawns. To spare the batteries, a microprocessor tells the doll to turn itself off once the child falls asleep and stops squeezing the toy. The bedtime companion comes in two forms -- a baby bear or a baby human -- each with bright eyes that double as a night- light and little electric lips that...
...Whitney Houston singing "Do You Hear What I Hear" is initially promising, a pure pop voice made to sing simple ballads. This production is more like "We Are the World: The Sequel," with choir-like backup vocals and a very similar melody. There's the same slow beginning and spare verses building to an overpowering climax of Whitney, backup singers, and treacly violins all at once...
Perhaps it's not too late. Perhaps, with your help, we really can make a difference. If you would like to make my expiration a happy one, please rush via U.S. Post any donation of smokable or ingestible material you feel you can spare to Rutger Fury, c/o The Harvard Crimson, Deputy Editorial Chairman, 14 Plympton St., Cambridge, Massachusetts...