Word: sparingly
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...newspaper comic strip. At mid-century the comics were dominated by action and adventure, vaudeville and melodrama, slapstick and gags. Schulz dared to use his own quirks - a lifelong sense of alienation, insecurity and inferiority - to draw the real feelings of his life and time. He brought a spare pen line, Jack Benny timing and a subtle sense of humor to taboo themes such as faith, intolerance, depression, loneliness, cruelty and despair. His characters were contemplative. They spoke with simplicity and force. They made smart observations about literature, art, classical music, theology, medicine, psychiatry, sports...
Usually that something is doing the laundry. Whenever Jonda goes down to her basement to wash clothes, she sees, tucked under the stairs, an old tandem stroller. Her father crafted it from spare parts, painted it white and wrapped rubber around its wooden wheels. Jonda won't get rid of the stroller, even though it provokes sorrow and anger toward the sister who walked out on her family. What Jonda doesn't know--and might never know...
When John Searles was 18, he worked in a factory in Connecticut. Every day at lunchtime he would drive home and cry. "It was my worst nightmare come true," he says. His parents, a truck driver and a housewife with little money to spare, had refused to send him to college, and set him up with this job instead. "They weren't trying to be mean," says Searles. "College wasn't part of their world...
...form as a producer, laying down beats for each number that are spare but never simplistic and that reverberate with menace, like footsteps following you down an alleyway late at night. The verbal flow on the album is involving and smooth; there's a smart mix of jokey lines ("In a room full of crackers/ I might cut the cheese," runs a passage on the track Redbull) and serious statements. A section on I Can't Go to Sleep laments, "Somebody raped our women/murdered our babieshit us with the crack and guns/in the early...
...high-minded solution from its highest court. They can agree to lift the velvet rope of the December 12 deadline, put the bouncers in the Florida legislature on hold until the 17th or so, and get nearly any hand count that suits them begun and finished with days to spare. A little conservative activism might be just what the founding fathers would have wanted...