Word: spartanism
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Siddiqi knew the way to the cramped, Spartan prayer room in the Canaday basement where he prays each...
...modern simplicity, Giorgio Armani -- an analogy Sander rejects. "I'm happy he exists," she says, "because he brought a minimalist vision of fashion compared with, say, Chanel or Versace. But I feel far away from him; these are two different concepts." In fact, Sander's style is even more spartan than Armani's, her palette even narrower; her detractors would argue that her look is far more severe and somber. "She is one of those designers other designers laugh at," says Joan Weinstein, who did so well carrying the Sander line in her Chicago boutique that she recently opened...
...party headed by Roosevelt, whose campaign is virtually broke, it was significantly more spartan. The Democratic gubernatorial nominee offered only corn chips and new vegetables to exhausted campaign staffers and volunteers...
With his high-heeled shoes and cumulus-cloud hairdo, Kim Jong Il displays a taste for the gaudy that is at odds with his country's spartan ways. He surrounds himself with the scions of his father's wartime comrades, a new generation of revolutionaries who call themselves the Loyal Warriors and whose cars carry license plates emblazoned with the Dear Leader's birth date. Mercurial and erratic, Kim Jong Il rarely meets foreign dignitaries. Defectors have told tales about his huge film collection, his penchant for Portuguese oranges and -- though he is reportedly married with two children -- a weakness...
...killer named Simon Phoenix (Wesley Snipes) from cryogenic prison (they took to deep-freezing criminals as early as 1996, during the last convulsive phase of urban warfare). To deal with him, his wimpy cops, not knowing Phoenix is in league with their boss, warm up his old nemesis John Spartan (Stallone), who's been doing chilly time for overly enthusiastic police work in the bad old days...