Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever got into trouble with the Cambridge police (the "real" police), we were to contact the Harvard police immediately. It seemed like the Harvard police were just like the Office of Career Services or the Bureau of Study Counsel: yet another agency that would give us preferential treatment and spare us from being exposed to the "real world...
Leigh Anderson is getting rid of her cash. She uses a bank-issued debit card to buy everything from groceries and gasoline to stamps at the post office. "I used to keep spare change for coffee, but the 7-Eleven just started accepting the card," says the 33-year-old education consultant. She shuns checks too, having signed up for a new computer service called ScanFone that lets her pay her credit-card, utility and 17 other bills in just 10 minutes by tapping a few numbers on the keypad of a high-tech telephone that sends instructions...
Vogt quickly moved the ball out to second base for another out to complete the triple play (with one to spare...
Anyone doubting that need only listen to her latest CD Blue Light 'Til Dawn, an enchanting and diverse collection that includes jazz renditions of songs by folk rocker Joni Mitchell and bluesman Robert Johnson. The first track, You Don't Know What Love Is, is slow and spare and recalls Billie Holiday without imitating her. "You don't know how hearts burn/ For love that cannot live yet never dies," Wilson sings, her rich alto conjuring feelings of midlife rust and heartbreak. Wilson's voice never pushes to hit any big, crass Star Search notes; this is a quiet album...
...winners will be Filip Forgeau and Maryel Ferraud who directed "L'Iguane." the somber, grey fantastical portrayal of Frag, a man who has just gotten out of jail and Matthew Harrison for his "darkly comic tale of an outlaw bowler's search for his long-lost father" entitled "Spare...