Word: sparely
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...punished at school for flashing his gift of meta-speed. Violet, who can disappear, is invisible to the boy she adores. Mom, now called Helen, copes with raising two troubled kids, while Mr. Incredible, now just plain Bob, faces a joyless desk job with thinning hair and a gigantic spare tire. He still does furtive good deeds, but when he makes a celebratory air punch, he throws his back out. He sounds like an ex--high school football star mired in memories as he says, "Reliving the glory days is better than acting like they didn't happen...
Since one Ground Zero roommate is studying abroad this semester, there was an open bedroom available for all of them. Davies and Co. were able to borrow spare beds from storage and stack and squeeze them into position...
...VIBE: The bald technorocker wins style points for a spare design and chatty postings. On seeing his yearbook picture, Moby gets nostalgic for "my spikey little hair." RATING...
...Jack Kerouac confided to his journals, "as well as a study of rain and rivers." Rain and rivers--why not? For his hyperkinetic, endearing, exasperating 1957 novel, Kerouac tried to admit whole worlds. An account of a few pinwheeling characters in perpetual cross-country motion, it had room to spare for rivers, landscapes, starry skies, Benzedrine addicts, endless marathons of driving and lots of fast-talking madmen. "Because the only people for me are the mad ones," Kerouac's narrator, Sal Paradise, tells us. "The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...
...professes a devout Islamic faith, but he didn't grow up in a religious family. "We never saw [Basayev's father] Salman go to the mosque until the mid-'90s," recalls former neighbor Abdul. In his teens, Basayev fulfilled his military service as a fireman, spending his ample spare time devouring books on world politics. After leaving the army, he and his younger brother, Shirvani, worked for their father as builders in southern Russia, before Basayev drifted to Moscow with vague plans of studying law. His education didn't last long; he was thrown out of the Institute of Land...