Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This isn't MTV. This isn't top-40 radio or the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. These are two street performers named David and Roselyn, playing songs for spare change in the French Quarter of New Orleans. This is Sylvester ("Sunshine") Lee teaching a class in African drumming in East St. Louis, Ill. This is polka accordionist Karl Hartwich and Cajun bandleader D.L. Menard and bluesmen Big Jack Johnson and Little Milton...
...even students who aren't watching CNN in every spare minute still have strong opinions about the issues...
...live at home. "More time," however, is a relative term. Lipinski's days are filled with promotional appearances at department stores and malls (even before the Olympics she had scored deals with DKNY and Mattel); her nights are filled with fund-raising galas and movie premieres. In her rare spare time, she tools around her home state of Texas in the black Corvette she got as part of her deal with autoweb.com Fans can keep up at taralipinski.com where her online diary--"I'll be in Dallas Sunday for Snapple"--gives one a fairly vivid and unintentionally depressing sense...
...rendered mute by the crippling weight of publicity. But of all the baseball titans, Mark McGwire in some ways most resembles Joe DiMaggio, coincidentally stricken by life-threatening illness just as McGwire was setting the home-run record. Admired by their teammates, considerate of their foes, blessed with a spare, natural grace, both men represent the merging of two traits not always found in close athletic proximity: talent and dignity...
...charges, whispers and gags true? Hardly matters; they need only be entertaining. Star tattle proceeds from two American impulses: cynicism and sentimentality. Sentimentally we imagine that a popular artist must have hidden depths. Cynically we suspect that every star must have a guilty secret; all that power, money and spare time allow them to act out any sick whim. Gossip has become the purest form of show biz, a story that can be as short as a gerbil joke or as epic as the Monica Follies. It attaches itself to any prominent person, no matter how conventional or innocent...