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...with draftsmen's tools than with paint rags, to trim their walls with Surveyor's lunar photographs than with models of the Venus de Milo. But each artist still reflects his personal style in his habitat. George Sugarman, who creates boldly colored abstract sculptures, works in a spartan loft equipped with power sanders and gluepots. Claes Oldenburg's huge apartment is in a perpetual clutter because, as Nesbitt points out, "Claes likes to have a lot of things around so he can stumble over them. There is the same sense of unexpected confrontation here that there...
...museums, points of historical interest, and window-shop. They buy few souvenirs, avoid bars and prostitutes and never tip. Usually they return to their ships by nightfall. In the ports along the Mediterranean where the Soviet fleet has displaced the Western ones, hawkers and whores are dismayed by the spartan conduct and serious demeanor of the Russian sailors...
...question that troubles the lazy, the suspicious, the cynical and even the practical is whether all this exercise really does any good. Some claims appear extravagant. Former Detroit Lions Back Dick Woit, who conducts a spartan exercise course for men at Chicago's Lawson Y.M.C.A., insists that his workouts relieve hangovers, nervous stomachs, bad tempers, potbellies, headaches and marital strife. A special exercise regimen for convicts, devised by Bonnie Prudden, is supposed to reduce recidivism, or criminal backsliding...
...spartan format (29 pages mimeographed on one side and stapled together by hand) derives from the fresh and deliberate lack of pretense which has become The Island's trademark. This makes it an appropriate outlet for its material: "It allows us to print things which might not be perfect, but which ought to be read," as one of the three editors explains...
Lapp took strong issue with the Pentagon's Dr. Finn Larsen, who last month insisted that the population below would scarcely notice the explosions of Spartan and Sprint warheads, and that at worst humans might suffer temporary blindness if they were looking directly at the flash. Exploded 100 miles above New Brunswick, N.J., Lapp said, a one-megaton weapon would create a spectacular, incandescent fire-pancake 50 miles up so large that it would overlap both New York and Philadelphia...