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...temptations—food, alcohol, clothing, sex—and sophrosyne (self-restraint) was paramount to protecting their democratic way of life. In Herodotus’s chauvinistic “Histories,” the Greeks overcame the invading Persians because their army maintained sophrosyne, eating only the sparsest food, while the Persians indulged in luxuries even as they overstretched their empire, depleting the land as they feasted on it, marching westward in their own imagined manifest destiny...
...Heim” use abundant strings and horns to fill the gaps. “Heysátan,” with its delicate brass swells, outshines the original version. Standout track “Ágætis Byrjun” features the album’s sparsest instrumentation, allowing the listener to focus on the vocals. Never has Jonsi Birgisson’s otherworldly falsetto, both bright and haunting at the same time, rang through as clear as it does here.Companion disc “Hvarf” features three previously unreleased songs and two rerecorded pieces...
Such is Chicago's plot. But this play is more accurately a series of vacuous show tunes set back-to-back, with only the sparsest of dialogue separating musical numbers. And while a few of the tunes are catchy ("Razzle-Dazzle" and "Cell Block Tango" are both amusing), most of the dialogue seems flat and humorless. One exchange between Roxie and her lawyer is particularly foolish. When Roxie tells Billy, "You treat me like some dumb common criminal," he replies, "You are some dumb common criminal." Couldn't book writers Ebb and Bob Fosse have done better than this...
...flash of humor, but the whole story-characters, moods, truths and lies. This is so not only because the stories could be retold as good anecdotes, but because the author is a master illusionist who can create, as Hemingway did, an impression of absolute reality from the sparsest of materials...
T.A.T.'s fare-cut was one more evidence of the Empty Seat Problem and the operators' determination to solve it, even during the sparsest flying season of the year. Other transport companies are trying analogous traffic stimulators. Last month Universal offered mileage books at exactly the railroad-Pullman rates. Last week Western Air Express offered similar rates to all public officials along its line. Colonial Airways offered its passengers freedom from tipping, and hot soup...
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