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...spare yourself from this type of disaster, never move your computer around while the hard disk is working (i.e. when the hard drive indicator light on your casing is lit). This is especially applicable to notebook computers, since they are often used on the road...
...late Raymond Carver. These have quite a different bleakness about them and are, anyway, resistant to the implicit cultural generalizations the movie tries to impose on them. Carver was content to capture discrete moments of confusion and loss in everyday, mostly lower- middle-class lives, rendered in spare, sparsely populated stories. His manner rigorously excluded direct emotional comment on the behavior of his people. Or, for that matter, ironic observations about...
Today, "Red," who would not give his full name, is no longer homeless, and sells the newspaper "Spare Change" instead of begging for money in Harvard Square...
...does in his bleak, spare novels, screenwriter Ian McEwan uses very simple means to establish an air of menace. The death of a neighborhood dog, a spectacular multivehicle auto accident, the near death of Henry's little sister in an ice-skating incident -- Henry's role in all these can be explained away by people with a vested interest in maintaining their tranquillity. Ultimately, cousin Mark awakens Henry's mother (a very believable Wendy Crewson) to long-suppressed suspicions, which leads to a stark and indescribable climax -- literally a cliffhanger, but one so nervy and straightforward that it puts...
...fall icon is the monastic dress -- long, chaste and as spare as a monk's humble quarters...