Word: spartanism
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Some of the new factory-outlet centers are no longer off-the-rack spartan. In Florida, the Orlando Factory Outlet Mall, which opened last year on the road between the city and Walt Disney World, offers, in addition to the usual stores, an antique-costume portrait center, a time-share condominium sales office, a Pac-N-Send mailing service and a video-game room. Traditional retailers hope that the factory outlets will fade away with the return of better economic times. Perhaps, but in the meantime, factory outlets will continue to be today's fashion...
...edgy, spartan existence for U.S. soldiers stationed along the two-mile-wide Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. In the "truce village" of Panmunjom, through which the border runs, two large bunkers, essentially allied observation posts, are dug into barren knolls. One of the bunkers is known as Guard Post Ouellette...
...Cedria, 16 miles southeast of the Tunisian capital, so that the tourist resort might serve as either a temporary or permanent headquarters for Yasser Arafat and 100 or more of his colleagues. The hotel contains a luxury suite for Arafat, a not altogether appropriate residence for a man of spartan taste who sometimes prefers to sleep on the floor. Arafat's movements last week were something of a mystery. The Lebanese radio announced Saturday that he had sailed with some of his men that morning for Cyprus and from there would continue to Tunis, but his actual departure from...
Such an attitude is common in an industry that is increasingly plagued by unrest. Bound by strict labor contracts, black miners are forced to live in spartan conditions, separated from their families for up to two years at a time. Racial tension at the mines has been aggravated by the vast disparity between pay rates for the nation's estimated 117,000 white mineworkers and their 700,000 black counterparts (the 1980 average: 1,077 rands a month for whites vs. 169 a month for blacks). Black workers, whose base pay raises are set by the South African Chamber...
Helen (Karen Allen) is in her early 20s and studying for a degree at Radcliffe under the spartan tutelage and omnipresent care of Annie (Jane Alexander), who is now 37. Into this antiseptic den of discipline walks a former Harvard instructor of English, 25-year-old John Macy (William Converse-Roberts), who is applying for the job of editing some articles that will eventually grow into Helen's autobiography. An ardent socialist, John foists a couple of books by Karl Marx on Annie and, before five minutes go by, steals two highly subversive kisses. The haunting note of bliss...