Word: spartanism
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During the week, the world's most powerful central banker bunks down in a spartan, $394-a-month one-bedroom Washington apartment so cramped that he can receive only one visitor at a time. Then on weekends he commutes to New York, where his wife Barbara keeps house in an unpretentious Manhattan co-op apartment for their son James, 23, also a banker, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Though she is severely afflicted with arthritis, Barbara has gone to work as a bookkeeper for a small architectural firm to help out. Like many another cash-strapped American family...
...walls of Anne Gorsuch's spartan Washington office are hung with tasteful, unobtrusive pictures of wildlife, as befits her role as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Her enemies, who are becoming legion, suggest that more suitable decoration would be stark photos of toxic waste dumps, polluted rivers and smog-choked cities...
...voices of Mammon and Cassandra could be heard muttering their dire prophecies along Shubert Alley. Mammon said that no sane person would pay the unprecedented price of $100 a ticket. Cassandra moaned that 8½ hours in a seated position, with only a one-hour dinner break, was a spartan rigor that no human frame could endure. (Agreed Socialite C.Z. Guest: "The only way I could sit still for that length of time would be on a horse...
...Harvard harriers aren't above an occasional pig-out session--like the ones they had at Elmer's Pancake House in Pocotello during the Nationals competition. Devoured in mass quantities were cream-filled pies, rich donuts, and bowls of ice cream; two runners managed to adhere to their spartan food regimes, however. Freshman standouts KATE WILEY AND JENNY STRICKER ordered apples and oranges for dessert.... Co-captain KRISTIN LINSLEY found out what it's like to be a pilot in Pocotello. Because the city is not large enough for a major carrier to fly in and out the harriers flew...
...starving on him. He could use Clark Brandon, who plays high school apprentice to Barnard Hughes' Mr. Merlin (CBS, Wednesdays at 8 p.m.). Brandon is a comely lad-in the androgynous, Los Angelized tradition of former teen throbs like David Cassidy-but his character lacks character. Squeers' spartan regimen and unspared rod could provide...