Word: sparing
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...documentary, like any movie trying to hold your attention, needs either a big theme - some tremendous political injustice will do - or a magnetic character that keeps people watching. Tyson has character to spare, since its subject and star is the two-time heavyweight champion and three-year guest of the Indiana penal system. In boxing, "the sweet science," he was the Frankenstein monster...
...slightly longer speech than I usually give," he told his audience at Georgetown University on April 14. "This is going to be prose and not poetry." What followed, as promised, was not poetry. Barack Obama doesn't do much poetry anymore. But in prose that was spare and clear and compelling, the President proceeded to describe how his Administration had responded to the financial crisis, the overriding challenge of his first 100 days in office. He had covered this ground before, nearly as well, in his budget message to Congress. But now Obama went further, using a parable from...
...already comping The Crimson? Everyone knows that Comping “Current”=Being a Baller. My new friends are walking faster. “Hey, nice shirt! Hey, the paper’s called ‘The Crimson,’ not ‘Spare Change.’” Maybe they’re just fast walkers...
...seek even more up close and personal with D.A. and Maxwell via pillow fights and nail painting, you can do so by shelling out $874.36 for the “Slumber Party Package.” Judging from the spare change listed in the price of the package—which includes a homemade breakfast and ukulele serenade—the duo has meticulously computed the cost of their company (or perhaps is just employing the concept of psychological pricing from their days in Ec10...
...prompting one student worker at Lamont to gripe in an email, “Note the absence of ‘constantly resetting desktop backgrounds’ in the above list [of my job responsibilities]. While I know you enjoy creating more work opportunities for others, please spare me the courtesy.” Ouch. Sorry, SLAM, we’re sure you meant well...