Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title track of Springsteen's 1984 album, Born in the U.S.A., sounded like a marching song, but the rhythm thrust home a sawtooth short story filled with despair and defiance. The new LP is a little more straightforward and a lot more spare. Springsteen's E Street Band reveled on Born in the U.S.A. Here they hang back; indeed, on four songs the Boss handles the instrumentation by himself. Born in the U.S.A. was an album full of bright light and bold colors and deliberate, surreptitious contradictions. Tunnel of Love, by contrast, seems washed in autumn moonlight, pale and chill...
...Boss is back. Tunnel of Love, Bruce Springsteen' s first album of new songs since Born in the U. S. A., is spare, strong and scary...
Boston is the intellectual capital of the world only in its spare time. The rest of the year, Beantown is the sports capital of the world. Or, at least, of the East...
...cases, Aquino has chosen to delay decisions, pass on responsibility to Congress or simply ignore the problems. The President has been faulted even by friends for reacting to crises by "praying and delaying." Of her survival, she said last week rather fatalistically, "If the country needs me, God will spare...
...Dole still carries the duties of Republican Senate minority leader while campaigning cheerfully every spare moment; to him politics has been vocation and avocation for decades. Governor Michael Dukakis divides his week, not quite so cheerfully, between the road and the Massachusetts statehouse. One Sunday night in Knoxville, Iowa, he wistfully told two dozen citizens how Sunday used to be his sacrosanct family day. But there he was at yet another coffee hour, fresh from a debate in which his record had been attacked, and he wondered if he might have some pecan pie with ice cream before the interrogation...