Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nurse practitioners do not pretend to be doctors. They generally restrict themselves to performing routine tests, treating minor ailments and suggesting over-the-counter medications. Even so, they can spare patients many costly trips to the doctor, and they often make house calls. These nurses are especially helpful to the elderly and people with chronic diseases, who may need close watching but not always by a physician...
...plot of this Beverly Hills Cop meets The French Connection flick is basically pretty straight forward. Gregory Hines, last seen dancing his tootsies off in the utterly offensive White Knights, and Billy "Mahvelous" Crystal play two yukster detectives from inner city Chicago who spend their spare moments between making drug busts and nailing crime rings by delivering Lettermanesque monologues to each other, presumably to pass the time. Utterly realistic cops these guys aren't, but remember, this isn't Hill Street Blues, and going to the movies means suspending one's disbelief. If you keep that caveat in mind...
...find out what professors spend their spare time doing, stop by the Harvard University Press Display Room (Holyoke Center). There you can find the latest published by guess who. Right next door, The Thomas More Book Shop (Holyoke Center) stocks religious texts. For less classical religious titles, Shambhala Booksellers (58 JFK St.) the Dawn Horse Bookstore (99 Mt. Auburn St.) and Sky Light Books (111 Mt. Auburn St.) have sixties-style spirituality and occult titles. These stores provide electronic music and incense to enhance the browsing atmosphere...
...even though James Crumley's Milo Milodragovitch goes for peppermint schnapps) and sometimes drops his guard long enough to reveal a flash of erudition (Marlowe has atrocious taste in socks but can quote Browning). Touches of class cater to the tough-guy fantasies of the literati. Albert Camus, whose spare existential novels were influenced by U.S. detective fiction, looked like Humphrey Bogart portraying Sam Spade. Hemingway followed in the footsteps of Mark Twain and Ring Lardner. But it is hard to read such terse narratives as The Killers and To Have and Have Not without imagining gumshoe tracks leading back...
...other items, $2,552 worth of shoes, which were not for Imelda but for others in the party. Other tabs: $19,971 for long-distance calls, $18,952 for clothing (including 3,500 for men's socks, belts, underwear) and $10,555 for toothpaste, soap, beauty aids. Hoping to spare U.S. taxpayers such outlays, the subcommittee urged that the U.S. Government--which spent $450,813 to transport Marcos and the others to "safe haven"--demand reimbursement for the personal bills...