Backed only by a spare band — electric cello, acoustic guitar, a small percussion setup — that mostly stayed out of her way, she was the rare singer who could withstand being so exposed.
When the newly minted mom learns the hard way that her baby won't spare her from the electric chair, it's up to Jimmy and his eccentric kin to raise the infant together.
In his 27-minute address to the jury, Lewis took pains to praise President McKinley; Miller notes that the closing argument was more calculated to defend the attorney's "place in the community, rather than an effort to spare his client the electric chair".
The result: relief, lower electric bills, spared lives and undisturbed slumber.
Mr. Cheney supports the move to spare his official budget the electric bills.
A woman who ran a corner shop with "teeth like a graveyard" offered him the use of her electric typewriter and spare room.
When Ford bailed out, it planned to crush the orphaned Citys, but the automaker was spared a "Who Killed the Electric Car?" scenario because Greenpeace picketed Ford headquarters in Oslo.
And it runs like an electric current through the spare, intense retrospective of sculpture by the American artist Charles LeDray at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
Cassandra Wilson Travellin' Miles (1998) In which the husky-voiced southern belle pays tribute to various eras of Miles Davis modal Miles, chamber Miles, electric Miles using his spare melodies as the basis for poetic reinterpretation.
So a major benefit of the new locomotives, which can switch from diesel to electric power, is to spare passengers who ride the diesel-powered Montauk and Port Jefferson trains the time and inconvenience of switching to electric trains in Jamaica.
