Word: spare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only onstage talent is her ability to scream convincingly; at the end, she screams for real but also for a reason impossible to guess beforehand. Ingalls, an American living in London, has built a cult following through her six previous books. This one may draw larger crowds to her spare, skewed, unforgettable visions...
WALKER EVANS: AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHS, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. These spare, poetic images from the Depression era gave American photography a candid new spirit and a lasting legacy. Through April...
...July notified their counterparts in Bonn of their findings. Unlike the U.S., however, Israel did not try to take the story public. One reason might be that West Germany has become the Israeli defense industry's best foreign customer. Bonn buys $300 million worth of ammunition and spare parts for tank guns and electronic equipment annually, helping provide employment for 7,000 Israeli workers...
Sullivan said he would devote much of his spare time this fall to fighting the measure, which he considers one of the gravest threats ever to rent control...
...military bases, communities across the U.S. launched pre- emptive strikes against the plan. The issue had less to do with military utility than with economic survival. In areas where the local economy depends on the payrolls of soldiers and civilian employees, citizens and public officials pleaded with Washington to spare their installations from extinction...