Word: sparing
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...viewer) that their relationship is built around a profound love. But we barely even see them chat; the film's only way of investigating the seriousness of the relationship is via the physical act of love--and in this sense, The End of the Affair has love to spare. Rarely in an American film has sex been depicted with such frankness and frequency. Crotches are grabbed, hips are rhythmically thrust and even Ralph's pale, well-formed bottom makes an extended appearance. But something is amiss in these scenes--the sex is cold and mechanical, and feels overly choreographed. Since...
...postwar years, it is, to borrow Greene's favorite word, a routinely "seedy" coupling. Until the afternoon when, taking a break from their lovemaking, Maurice steps out of the room and a buzz bomb strikes. She thinks he's dead, drops to her knees and prays: if God will spare him, she will give him up. Whereupon Maurice returns to the bedroom, stunned but intact...
Though avid fans with cash to spare will want to spring for the full set, others interested in hearing a major artist at the peak of his powers should stand by for the release of individual volumes, starting next year. The bulk of The Rubinstein Collection is given over to later performances that too often are cautious, occasionally even bland. But the first 11 discs, recorded in the '20s and '30s and exquisitely remastered by Ward Marston, sizzle with the devil-may-care brio that made Rubinstein the best-loved pianist of his generation...
...Bennett agrees that he and Warren were utterly consumed by their project. "Every spare minute, if not in the studio, was [spent] thinking about it. I'd be listening to a lecture, and in my mind I'd be, 'Okay, now what's the trumpet going to do?' The week prior [to getting the album finalized] we probably spent 50 or 60 hours in the studio...
...While the space station will not be completed until at least 2004 and, at this point, the rooms are being discussed only for use by astronauts, the elements are clearly in place for ordinary earthlings (with a few hundred thousand dollars to spare) to vacation in outer space. For more than a year, the American firm Space Voyages has been taking reservations for sub-orbital shuttle rides - price tag, $98,000 - and expects to launch in 2002. Further, NASA's top brass has urged Washington in recent years to allow civilian forays into outer space, including private rides...