Word: spares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...light up a stage convinced Atlantic and Polydor talent scouts to sign her up in 1973 for $750,000 worth of recording contracts. "I've never had a hit record in my life," admits Maggie. "But I'm a working-class girl, I don't spare the effort, and I know I have the ability to make people enjoy themselves." She has just completed her first album, Queen of the Night, masterminded by Atlantic's ace producer Jerry Wexler, and she climaxes her first smash U.S. solo tour with a June 13 Madison Square Garden concert...
...Another spare-time kneader, the California Institute of Technology's director of publications Ed Hutchings Jr., 60, of Altadena, bakes loaves of "basic white" with bran or wheat germ each Saturday. "Kapow!" he says over the stove. "If you've got any frustrations, this is the way to get rid of them...
...council's headquarters was a large, comfortable villa in a middle-class neighborhood of Belfast. There the U.W.C. distributed "ration coupons" without which gasoline could not be purchased because the militants had taken control of nearly all the province's gas stations. "We are out to spare the people as much as possible," said a U.W.C. spokesman, "and squeeze the biggies...
...poet who loses and then regains his creative gift, generally regarded as one of Burgess's finest literary accomplishments. There is also an epic poem based on his recent script for the Italian TV production of Moses-with Burt Lancaster in the title role. In his spare time, Burgess looks for someone to put on his musical based on James Joyce's Ulysses...
...apparently, are more or less doomed to love. But cheer up -a little. Love, like the blight in A Mild Attack of Locusts, can be endured. The sturdy wind up saying "It could have been worse." Mrs. Lessing has always been a slow, deliberate writer who seems unable to spare herself or her reader the slightest wince of pain. She is strong as perhaps no male writer of love stories is strong. Yet the stark honesty, the masterly bleakness of these stories are not finally depressing. It may even be praise to say that after a Lessing story-as after...