Word: spartanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...looks like a messy room that's been temporarily straightened up. Disorder follows me wherever I go--it took hours to clean out my office at The Crimson when I finally handed over the presidency. Andrew, the new president, has apparently learned his lesson; the office is now spartan but orderly. In my opinion, Andrew is pretty damn together, frantic outbursts aside--he knows how to throw things away...
...troops in Panama City tightened security and mobilized anti-riot squads today as they prepared to repatriate 7,500 Cubans held there sincelast summer's boatlift crisis. It won't be easy: almost none of the refugees wants to return to the spartan U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and so far, at least 13 have scaled chain-link fences topped by razor wire surrounding the camps, two have drowned trying to swim the Panama canal and another dozen have attempted suicide. (Only 1,171 out of the nearly 8,500 originally brought there from Guantanamo have obtained visas...
...spartan and unfussy set, with the large scroll paintings of sunflowers (by Cynthia Soto), and simple tea table and cushions, provided an effective backdrop for the play. Having and open stage allows smooth transitions between the naturalistic scenes among the women and the more stylized ones in which they address the audience directly...
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...