Word: spartan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dallas area, he was an indifferent student but an avid reader of the Bible who prayed for hours and memorized long passages of Scripture. He also played guitar -- not badly by some reports -- using rock music as well as his magnetic preaching to recruit followers. Some of the spartan interiors in the Waco compound were decorated with posters of the wild man rock guitarist Ted Nugent and the heavy-metal band Megadeth...
...just the lines that are comprehensible, since Harlan tends to swallow syllables and sometimes whole words. He also spends too much time nervously fondling both his wife--he speaks a good number of lines directly into her stomach--and his champagne glass--one of the few props in the spartan...
...lineman and outfielder. "I want to go to college. I want to make something of myself. I don't just want to be another victim of the ghetto." But sometimes Keri finds it difficult to keep focused. The short two-block walk to school from the small, spartan apartment he shares with his mother and two younger brothers is anything but encouraging. Boarded-up windows, piles of bricks from collapsed buildings, burned-out vacant lots and bustling liquor stores are all that's left of the neighborhood he calls home...
Like high-tech, multimillion-dollar special effects. The Irish band U2, which used to pride itself on its spartan, no-glitz performance style, has invested $2.5 million in an extravaganza it calls the Zoo TV Outside Broadcast, to be unveiled when the group begins a 15-city U.S. swing that will run from Aug. 11 into November. Dates are still being added, but the tour will also hit Toronto and Montreal. The show employs nine screens, with the two largest measuring 20 ft. by 30 ft., three dozen 27-in. television monitors and a satellite dish. During the concert...
...rugged, snow-mantled mountainside above Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Joloi Beishenov tends his flock on horseback, as his ancestors did centuries ago. During the cold season he shelters his 70 sheep in two traditional canvas yurts and lives alone in a spartan wooden shack until the warm weather brings his family up from the lowlands. This spring there is another new season, the opening out of the former Soviet Union; Beishenov has heard about new economic reforms, and hopes to rent from a neighboring state farm the strip of stony pasture he uses for grazing. But he is unmoved...