Word: spareness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read Mr. Zbigniew Herbert. He is a serious poet, full of beauty that does not insult our modern post-atrocity sensibilities. A Polish poet born in 1950 who was active in his country's anti-Communist movement, Herbert died in 1998, leaving behind an oeuvre that begins with spare poems about creation, antiquity and art. He then continues those themes through increasingly pointed and readable poetry while also developing a strong form of the prose poem that mixes fairy tales, images from everyday life and an aphoristic style. The recently published posthumous collection Elegy for the Departure and Other Poems...
There is no place to buy kosher spare ribs in Tucson, Arizona. Those who happen to be stranded in that far corner of the American Jewish Diaspora have to make the two-hour journey to Phoenix in order to partake of succulent barbecued beef. It was on the way home from one such trip that the illusion of love was demystified, and my young soul turned to black stone...
...SPARE CHANGE DOESN...
Thank you for the kind mention of us as street performers in your piece on PBS's program about music along the Mississippi River [TELEVISION, Jan. 11]. However, we do not play just for "spare change," as your story stated. We want your money, honey! Throw us a dollar or throw us a five; help keep us alive! Or if you can afford plenty, give us a 20! We are winners of awards in New Orleans. Also, we play fairs and festivals all over the world. And here you can't even get coffee for spare change anymore. DAVID LEONARD...
...took the House impeachment managers by storm. A little-known White House deputy counsel, Mills hurled their hypocrisy back in their faces. The managers, she intoned, had argued that "the entire house of civil rights might well fall" if Clinton escaped conviction. You could almost hear her muttering, "Spare me." "We've had imperfect leaders in the past," said Mills, referring to Thomas Jefferson, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., "and we'll have imperfect leaders in the future, but their imperfections did not roll back nor did they stop the march for civil...