Word: minimalistically
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...when Clinton said, "Our job is to give people the tools to make the most of their own lives," the echo was distinctive. He was exactly where he had been four years before, when, speaking equally of rights and responsibilities, he seemed to realize instinctively that voters wanted a minimalist but compassionate national government. So Clinton went forward by reaching back to the preliberal American tradition that sought to empower citizens with programs like the G.I. Bill, the Homestead Act and Land Grant colleges...
DIED. SAUL BASS, 75, graphic designer who turned opening-credit sequences in movies into brilliant minimalist films; of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; in Los Angeles...
...from Luke and Matthew, for instance, that did not reflect the earlier written Mark but corresponded to one another were ascribed to a document known as Q, a bare-bones collection of sayings. In the 1980s, radicals took a large step farther. They suggested that only Q and similarly minimalist early documents, real and notional, might constitute authentic reporting; the rest of the Gospels was mostly tacked-on religious revisionism...
...CHILDHOOD IN KANSAS IS THE WAY TO EXPLAIN Bob Dole's minimalist approach to public speaking, as we've been hearing lately, how do you account for my sister Sukey? She has spent more years living in Kansas than Dole ever did, and when she's of a mind to, she can talk the eyeballs right out of your head...
...show's entire design, with its minimalist sets, gaudy costumes, and exposed spotlights, convincingly evoked the atmosphere of a European circus. While some effects, such as striking sillouhettes against the bright backdrop, worked beautifully, others, such as the projection of stars onto the ceiling, unfortunately looked extremely amateurish...