Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other Harvard students occupy their spare time with pressing political issues of the day, namely divestment of Harvard's $416 million of investments in South Africa-related corporations...
...London news photographer, Puttnam never attended college or film school. He worked as a talent agent for photographers and directors between 1966 and 1968. Then, joining with Agent Sandy Lieberson, he produced his first feature film, Melody. Since then, Puttnam has made 28 pictures, including documentaries (Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?), fast-paced sagas (Midnight Express and The Killing Fields) and lyrical features (Local Hero...
...tall, spare man who normally dresses in nonclerical clothes, Curran, 52, is probably the best-known Catholic moral theologian in the U.S. today. The author of 16 books and a popular teacher, he has openly questioned the church's stance on contraception, abortion and extramarital sex. Broadly speaking, Catholic teaching holds that these acts are immoral in themselves and can never be allowed. Curran contends that there may be occasions when they are permissible. He also believes Rome should ease its ban on remarriage after divorce...
They are indeed: 46 years together as husband and wife. "I was a cradle snatcher," he notes gleefully of the woman he met when she was 17. The commitment they display toward each other is wholly intertwined in their shared devotion to his work -- the spare, meticulous, compassionate vision that has made Wyeth both a beloved icon to American museumgoers and a nettlesome anachronism to the art establishment. So the Wyeths are girded to ride out, with grace and tweaking good humor, the storm of publicity that broke around them last week, created by a score of press releases sent...
...time favorite pictures. During the school year, it hangs on the wall of my room in Dunster House, a visual synopsis of another Christina's life, one far away from Harvard and my daily existence. With its clear, sweeping brush strokes, monochromatic color scheme, and spare format,Christina's World wipes trouble and anxiety from the mind of its viewer by providing a glimpse of a purer time preserved in the ambered golden tones of Wyeth's brush. Unlike most art critics who maintain that the woman's body in the foreground is twisted in agony and torture...