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...narration is hard and spare, with twitching jaw muscles. It ends at just the right moment, after an accomplice named George has turned treacherous, and Parker has dealt with this matter, and another colleague, who is loyal, asks, "You seen George?" and Parker says merely, "Yes." Cut, fade to black. Another Parker, to be published next year, is in the can, and the first volumes of the series, The Hunter and The Man with the Getaway Face, are due to be reprinted. They deserve to be, though Comeback is a grittier, better book. And the other 14 prehistoric Parkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: NAUGHTY, BUT ALSO NICE | 11/3/1997 | See Source »

There are dark sides in every government that we don't wish to see. We try to harden our hearts when walking past that guy on the street shouting "Spare change." If human rights must be observed, let there be no black man beaten on the street of Los Angeles. Let there be no more men promoted than women. Let there be no native people driven to the West. Let there be no foreign nations slaughtered in the East. Let there be neither military invasions nor political invasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Benefits Of Communist Rule in China | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...into the ambient noise of their technologically advanced synthesizers. Because, as has always been the case with Duran Duran, it's not all about the music, but rather all about the attitude. And, although well advanced in years, for pop stars at any rate, Duran Duran has attitude to spare...

Author: By Ivy C. Pochoda, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fun and Nothingness With Attitude | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...spare time, Ault says he enjoys cooking and music...

Author: By Nanaho Sawano, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Visiting Chemistry Professor Aims to Reach Out to Students | 10/21/1997 | See Source »

...Rookie of the Year and the National League's Most Valuable Player in 1949, and he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962, his first year of eligibility--but he also retained his humanity. Late in his career he wrote an eloquently spare letter to a white New Orleans journalist who had abused him in print: "I wish you could comprehend how unfair and un-American it is for the accident of birth to make such a difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: BUSTING THE COLOR LINE | 10/20/1997 | See Source »

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