Word: sparing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...airy, glassy, geometric houses have caught on with stylesetters in the film and fashion worlds, who are buying up the old originals and restoring them. And the spare, functional furniture from the '50s has been getting so popular that upscale stores featuring it have sprung up in Manhattan's trendy meat-packing district and on the equally fashion-forward La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Ikea and Crate & Barrel have begun producing knockoffs for the mass market. The taste for things '50s-ish has also seeped into fashion (haven't you noticed all those sweater sets and pleated skirts...
Saramago expertly crafts this intricate and horrifying allegory with a style as striking as it is sparse. The language is never intricate, extremely metaphorical or descriptive; rather, Saramago relies on the sharp edge of spare, pointed prose to pierce the fragile shells of human decency and social stability. Images of rape and death are told with the same distanced tone as scenes of strength and love, melding tone and image into a grand, constant conglomerate of uncomfortable fear and hopelessness...
...asked [my students] to please help us in ourrelief efforts, either by donating their time inpacking up contributions, or in donatingcontributions or whatever funds they might be ableto spare to the effort," said Fash, who runs afield school in Honduras
Schedules at Harvard are packed thicker than a meatball sub at Malden's Lebanon Street Market. "I've got too much work" could easily replace "Veritas" as the University motto. With extracurricular, job-related and academic commitments, it's tough to find spare time...
While none of these potential solutions will be a panacea to all circulation problems, let me leave you with a little perspective. The Crimson's circulation department is a half-dozen full-time students who, in their spare time, oversee the door-to-door delivery of more than 5,500 newspapers every day. Few comparable college newspapers attempt anything on this scale. The Princetonian only delivers to subscribers and the Yale Daily News merely leaves a bunch of papers at a central spot in the residential colleges, in spite of both papers having a readership an order of magnitude smaller...