Word: spartanism
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...Starck's trademark, absurdist touch was at full volume: painted white with touches of fluorescent yellow, it featured an oversize, 8-ft.-tall vase filled with hydrangeas; gold-leaf stools shaped like molars; and a collection of giant chess pieces straight out of Alice in Wonderland. Upstairs in the spartan $200- to 300-a-night bedrooms, guests could "paint" the room according to their moods, using a colored light panel...
Depending on the locale, these affairs can range from sumptuous to spartan. At some senior bars, I've been offered more free drinks than I could possibly consume over a semester; on Wednesday night's sparsely attended gathering at the Bow, not only did I have to shell out change for Lilliputian-sized packets of potato chips, but my roommates and I discovered that the gaming policy was strictly BYOD (bring your own darts). Who walks around Cambridge with his or her own case of steel-tipped darts? Not anyone I would want to meet at Senior...
...sold during his lifetime and disassembled to patch a barn and roof a pig sty. But the site is marked by a cairn of rocks, started by Bronson Alcott after Thoreau died in 1862 and supplemented over the years by reverent visitors. Nearby, a facsimile of Thoreau's tiny, spartan home reflects his belief that freedom lay in simplicity. "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself," he wrote, "than be crowded on a velvet cushion...
...From Spartan to Stately...
Reed describes her hall in the Gropius Complex, which is made of sturdy concrete both inside and outside, as "spartan and utilitarian...