Word: sparely
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...childhood hijacked by religious fundamentalism, that witnessed the imposition of the veil, that saw the legal age of marriage for girls lowered to nine?is almost too full of trauma to be confined to a prose narrative. Satrapi powerfully captures the Ayatollahs' tyranny by rendering it in the spare, black- and-white images of a graphic novel, much as Art Spiegelman did in Maus, his comic-strip version of the Holocaust...
DIED. JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN, 94, poet and short-story writer; in Cockeysville, Md. With spare, precise language, her poems explored the anxieties of being human and led to her selection, in 1971, as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress--the position now called U.S. poet laureate...
...please, spare us the equal-opportunity keening about Charlie's Angels and Tomb Raiders. The first series is a kung-fu pajama party; the giga-giggling Angels are girls, not adult women. Katharine Hepburn had more vim than the three of them put together. And Angelina Jolie's Lara Croft, for all her googol-24-36 figure, is emotionally not a woman at all. She's a rumbustious guy whose response to nearly any challenge is to open the artillery...
...Orwell's language was famously spare, but his themes were subtle. He knew that analogy is not destiny, and would surely have resisted the idea that Americans are bound to behave badly in Iraq simply because all previous imperialists have done so when given a chance. He would certainly have noted that the post-imperial experience has often been a miserable one. Since independence from Britain in 1948, Burma, for example, has been raped by a succession of military regimes. Self-rule does not necessarily mean wise rule...
...realized how much people-watching I’ve been missing in Harvard Square, which presents a pretty stark divide between the haves (students and tourists) and have-nots (sellers of Spare Change and requesters of quarters...