Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Poetry is the thing in MTV's first Spoken Word Tour, which wraps up after 20 cities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, later this month. It features the fiery Reg E. Gaines and two other poets reading their work on a spare stage. What would Beavis...
...music reflects not only his own life, it reflects ideas about life and death, just as the greatest composers have always had," notes Masur, who has known Schnittke personally since 1974. Masur last month led the New York Philharmonic in the world premiere of Schnittke's spare, incantational Symphony No. 7, which the orchestra commissioned at Masur's insistence...
Mike Newell's film finds its premise in one of modern life's minor truths: if you are a sociable specimen of the yuppie breed, you spend many of your Saturdays and much of your spare income suiting yourself up for friends' % weddings. Charles (Hugh Grant), a 32-year-old Londoner, has made a second career out of being a supporting player in these archaic rituals. For him it's like attending a rugby match without having to get muddy. Until, that is, he meets Carrie (Andie MacDowell), a pretty American. The movie being a nostalgia piece -- remember...
...long before we hear the annual anti-final club screeds by campus egalitarians. Why don't we spare ourselves yet another hearing of the standard pontifications about the value of equality and the inevitable echo about freedom of associations? Final Clubs, phooey. Think of these little dens of iniquity in our midst not as clubs, but concentration camps for nitwits...and be grateful...
...have twenty dollars to spare (twenty six on weekends) and have always thought of yourself as Nancy Drew or one of the Hardy boys, go see Shear Madness. After all, it's in the Guinness...