Word: spares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...images in the show are slightly larger than life-size; some are more than 6 ft. high. Avedon has worked in this scale before, notably in the mammoth prints shown at his 1978 retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Here size works to spare his subjects from condescension. These are not little cameos of dismay to be viewed at arm's length with the lips pursed. Facing figures of this dimension, hung so that their eyes are at or near eye level, the viewer feels himself to be the object of their scrutiny too. Confronted...
...Homestead's recent post-punk crop. Both the songs--especially "The Ugly American"--and the liner notes show a sense of humor long gone from most rock and roll. This EP certainly beats Bing Crosby fists down: a must for anyone who burns Norman Rockwell paintings in his spare time...
Some needed money for other reasons. One man asked for donations to help bail his brother out of jail--a cause to which many of the concertgoers seemed sympathetic as they stopped to give him spare cash...
...popular priest in a small rural community, Gauthe, 40, admitted having sodomized and otherwise abused at least 35 children entrusted to his care. Last week's sentencing followed a plea-bargaining arrangement involving all of % the parents, which was undertaken to spare Gauthe's victims the trauma of testifying. But the case is not over. The diocese of Lafayette and its insurers have paid $4.9 million to settle eleven civil suits filed by the families, and ten more are pending...
...France (392), Haiti (377), Canada (323), West Germany (300) and Britain (225). Large areas of the globe, including India, China and the Soviet Union, have reported no indigenous cases at all. But the spread of the virus through international travel seems impossible to control, and it is unlikely to spare any country. As has already been seen in the U.S., once the disease takes hold, the number of victims multiplies rapidly. No one knows how many sufferers around the world have died from the disease, although there have been 7,157 deaths...