| 单词 | spartan |
| 例句 | Brannon asked, as a smile began to build on the spartan isthmus around his mouth. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It feels clean and open, but it isn’t spartan, because everything is opulent. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Unwilling to face the loneliness of the airfield’s spartan accommodation, or a dour granite-faced Aberdeen landlady who wouldn’t accept her ration coupons for an unarranged evening meal, Maddie opted for the train. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Watching him from the spartan gallery, Terryl didn’t pick that up at all. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z She confused being spartan with being charitable, and gave away her possessions without truly doing good with them. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z She looked into a spartan bedroom with a neatly made bed, a cross-stitch with a Bible verse above the bed, a Bible on the nightstand, and almost nothing else. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z As soon as this happened, they cheerfully abandoned the gruelling, dangerous, and often spartan life of hunter-gatherers, settling down to enjoy the pleasant, satiated life of farmers. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It looks very nice. Clean linen in all the rooms. A bit spartan.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Orlando West was a dusty, spartan area of boxy municipal houses that would later become part of Greater Soweto, Soweto being an acronym for South-Western Townships. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When his mother had said more or less the same thing, the first time his parents had visited the apartment, he’d argued with her, hotly defending the merits of his spartan, solitary existence. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We boarded one of Quiescence’s three Delta Puma 25 diesel dive boats, a spartan vessel captained by Tim Shaw, who took five of us to the Christ of the Abyss. In Key Largo, fin-to-fin with the denizens of Florida’s revitalized coral barrier reef 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z The restaurant is spartan but cheerful, with orders placed at the counter and just a handful of tables. Momos That Stand Out in a Crowd 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z Even in scarred, spartan Red Hook, one of the few parts of western Brooklyn not easily accessible by subway, “Gentrification has reared its ugly head,” as the neighborhood’s most prominent clergyman notes. Red Hook Summer: Spike Lee Returns to His Brooklyn Roots 2012-08-09T20:25:27Z It’s “not being a spartan,” he concedes, with a glint in his eye. A frame of reference for displaying art This Dutch creation is a model of how to spin spartan into modern minimalism. Prison hotels: welcome to a night in the nick 2013-06-17T15:41:44Z Michelangelo in old age lived a spartan life, reluctantly accepting gifts of cheese and wine from worried friends who did not like to think of him brooding ascetically in his lonely house in Rome. Who would be the worst artist to spend Christmas with? 2012-12-19T13:01:59Z Joan Kowalski, Bob Ross Inc.’s president, said at the warehouse, as she rifled through a stack of the artist’s landscapes in an otherwise spartan office. Bob Ross Fans Seek Some Happy Little Appreciation for Their Muse 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z The serene, spartan theater at Mount Tremper, in the Catskills, with its mountainous surroundings, seems to bring everything into clear focus. Mina Nishimura Invokes Butoh at Mount Tremper 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z The old Hotel Chelsea, where the painter Jackson Pollock and singer Bob Dylan once lived as they eked out a spartan living as artists? Finding Yoko Ono’s New York 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z I was warmed, then moved, by this recent history of indies, spartanly staged in low light, each a gem of shining creativity. ArtsBeat: Game Theory: The Year of the Indie 2013-12-25T13:01:28Z His lyrics are personal and spartan, and yet hazy enough that two people might come away seeing two different shapes — say, a dying father or an ex-old lady. On “This Old Dog,” Mac DeMarco’s two sides become one 2017-05-07T04:00:00Z But with such spartan rooms, and no bar or common spaces to speak of, the MAve doesn’t lend itself to dining in. Six New (and Affordable) Boutique Hotels in New York 2010-06-18T21:58:00Z Still, it finds him responding to traumas – the final illness of his late mother, Kate McGarrigle, among them – in comparatively spartan settings, his heart, more than ever, discernible on his sleeve. Music picks of the week 2010-04-09T23:07:00Z After leaving Spa, he rented a spartan space in a jujitsu studio. Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Humble, but not spartan, many dishes from this tradition are also exceedingly delicious. A Satisfying Soup From the Italian Pantry 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z She emerges here as a woman of sparkling wit and intelligence, remarking on her husband’s “extraordinary political simplicity” and mordantly noting that “the English left is always spartan; they’re fighting Franco to the last Spaniard.” Books of The Times: George Orwell’s Letters Fill Out a Complex Personality 2013-08-19T20:18:07Z To some, this may seem a spartan meal, and it certainly isn’t elegant. Lamb Stew, Now Lighter and Brighter 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z His writing is at once lyrical and spartan. Selected Poems by Robert Bringhurst 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z The alternative is a spartan architectural setting in which consoles, cornices and arches are detailed with faultless precision, without any attempt at creating an atmospheric effect. Review: A Florentine Artist's Two Aesthetic Lives 2010-02-19T13:15:00Z Opened in 1984, this Club Med was one of the first resorts on the island of Providenciales, and many of the rooms, while clean, recall the village’s spartan days. Single in the Caribbean Sun 2012-02-03T19:34:19Z These small pictures balance the spartan and the sumptuous as they mix Greek and English text, and possess a stark beauty that should appeal to believers and skeptics alike. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’ He rented a spartan room in New York, and went on a silent Jesuit retreat in Wales. Andrew Garfield: ‘I never compromised who I was’ 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But Rattle is a conductor nothing like the more emotionally spartan Boulez, and this Mahler Seventh was effusive in the extreme. Is Berlin the world's best orchestra? Answer is irrelevant in two concerts of ferocity and finesse 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z He lived a spartan existence in subsidized housing there, surrounded by his piano and his scores. Marvin David Levy, Opera Composer Who Became a Felon, Is Dead at 82 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z The structure gracefully withstands Nova Scotia’s often brutal weather, its 1,200 square feet split over three spartan floors; each level has a 14-inch ring beam to help protect against the island’s gale-force winds. In Nova Scotia, Homes as Wild as the Landscape Around Them 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Holocaust Memorial Museum shop is spartan, brightly lit and as sedate as a Barnes & Noble, with shelves stocked with memoirs, books about Anne Frank and academic tomes about genocide. New museum’s gift shop has a $3,000 quilt, a $1 pencil and everything in between 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z “I was very spartan — work, sleep, work, sleep,” he said. The First Great Designer of 2022 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z On the surface, the new arrangement seems like an odd fit: The A.C.C.’s usual spartan accommodations can seem like the antithesis of a luxury lodge. At a Wilderness Resort in Canada, Getting There Is the Only Hard Part 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Monk’s House is lovely, but smaller, more restrained, almost spartan in comparison to the exuberance of Charleston. The Bloomsbury Bohemians in the British Countryside 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The Factory, whose name he helped invent, became his workplace and spartan home not long after Warhol gave him a 35-millimeter Pentax camera. Billy Name, Who Glazed Warhol’s Factory in Silver, Dies at 76 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z They’re playful yet spartan, with an austerity not evident in the other pictures, even quiet recent ones such as the lovely “Violin Mantra: Dark Room Puddles Develop Blue Skies.” Not all right angles in ‘Geometrix: Line, Form, Subversion’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Rooms are spartan but comfortable and most decidedly not for business travelers in need of items like ironing boards, refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Crystal Hotel in Portland, Ore. 2011-09-02T17:55:00Z Inspired by the monks’ values and spartan lifestyle, Francl decided to “stop stuffing stuff into my classes for the sake of volume.” To get students to focus, some professors are asking them to close their eyes 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z But there are no other colors, which is one reason the artist’s work suggests the more spartan compositions of such abstract expressionists as Barnett Newman and Robert Motherwell. In the galleries: In ‘Gilded,’ artist Takefumi Hori applies Midas touch Back in that day, there was a different sensibility, and it made us more spartan human beings, I think, and certainly more independent. Kate Mulgrew of 'OITNB' shows her softer side in 'Born With Teeth' 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z A heated pool and open-air courtyard with outdoor fireplace help prove that a green lifestyle need not be spartan. Snøhetta Designs a Striking Zero-Energy House 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z That plantation’s slave’s quarters, which if anything have been “prettified,” were spartan brick structures which must have reached oven-like temperatures during the hot and humid Southern summers. I hosted a plantation retreat. Is it too late to say I’m sorry? 2014-01-20T15:30:00Z Meantime, a savvy theater company in Alexandria proceeded with plans to mount a more spartan version of the show. Review | I enjoyed ‘Be More Chill’ this time. And no, that isn’t the wine talking. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z On Party Store, rough-cut, spartan riffing turns out to be a great fit for the 25-year-old future dreamed up by Cybotron and Derrick May, bringing out the music's harsher qualities but preserving its drive. There's nothing new in genre-mixing 2011-02-24T22:32:01Z Just under an hour earlier, he had lurched into a lesser-known standard, backed in spartan form by bass and drums. Music Review: Sticking to One Tune, but Not Stuck 2010-09-16T04:30:00Z His eventual reputation may well, in the end, be founded on his early works for his ensemble — their intensity an unlikely, still-bracing mixture of gaudy and spartan, bare yet glowing — and the early operas. Philip Glass Is Too Busy to Care About Legacy 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z It was still too early for most Russians to sit down to dinner, and we were the only guests in the spartan place. White Nights of St. Petersburg, Russia 2011-06-03T19:03:09Z A tortilla is not the usual spartan disk but a rugged fritter, laced with green onion and tasting like a Chinese scallion pancake, with a fringe of crunchy bubbles. I Love Paraguay, an Ode to a Homeland 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z In keeping with La Hansi’s spartan aesthetic, the private bathroom was tidy and plain, with a light wood basin, framed by hand-painted tiles, and a mirror above. Resting in Peace in Transylvania 2017-10-14T04:00:00Z Our bedroom, which faced away from the view, was spartan but comfortable with big screened windows and a generous private bath. Echoes of History at a Tuscan Estate 2014-05-09T19:05:28Z And the Konmari method doesn’t demand a spartan aesthetic — this is no harsh, capsule wardrobe with a 28-day juice fast chaser regimen. How hoarding and tidying up defined the decade 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The lighthouse apartment was bare, almost spartan, but spotlessly clean. Croatia’s remotest island 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z The new Broadway revival of “A View From the Bridge,” opening Thursday, features spartan production design, including a sharply minimalist set and actors in workaday clothes. Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Today, its 29 modernist rooms begin at barely $100 per night — with décor and service accordingly spartan — and it mainly attracts young Europeans. Journeys: In Jamaica, a Mento Music Revival 2011-11-11T20:00:10Z There are several bed-and-breakfasts and small inns in the area, but they are generally spartan after years of catering to the ski-bum crowd. Explorer: A New Jay Peak, in Vermont 2011-12-09T19:25:24Z Between its original run in 2009 and 2010, this spartan and nimble comedy about a catering team was one of those superb shows nobody was watching except for the critics singing its praises. The "Party Down" cater waiters are back, but has the now-famous cast outgrown the pink bow ties? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Doyle, however, has a way of taking a stethoscope to overdressed shows, listening for the compelling heartbeat beneath stereotyped surfaces and translating what he hears into elegantly spartan stagecraft. Review: Bad Girl Makes Good in a Glorious ‘Carmen Jones’ 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z He keeps all 100 acres of this beautifully reverent destination―from spartan Civil War headstones to patined angel statues to ornate mausoleums―pristine. The Personalities of Natchez 2010-04-07T20:54:00Z The film is so spare and spartan, it could be a parable. Ken Loach: ‘If you’re not angry, what kind of person are you?’ 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z The spartan world of Martin Koolhoven’s sober, well-made World War II melodrama, “Winter in Wartime,” is a rustic blue-gray landscape of woods and snow-covered roads through which armed German soldiers roam in trucks. | 'Winter in Wartime': Teenager Encounters Adulthood and Nazis 2011-03-17T23:08:53Z He found himself in a spartan foyer, facing a huge, smooth metallic door. The great Moon-rock heist - extract 2011-07-08T21:59:00Z I used to choose very spartan places but he’s given me a taste for luxury. 'My romantic holiday’: the good, the bad and the calamitous 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z The spartan world of Martin Koolhoven's sober, well-made World War II melodrama, "Winter in Wartime," is a rustic blue-gray landscape of woods and snow-covered roads through which armed German soldiers roam in trucks. 'Winter in Wartime': Nazis and the mysteries of adult life, through a teen's eyes 2011-04-14T21:56:10Z Sometimes, the poetry is prosaic bordering on spartan. The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore – review 2012-07-07T23:05:07Z The latest, the spartan, percussion-centric “Fetch the Bolt Cutters,” was released during the early days of the pandemic, to near universal acclaim. Perspective | ‘Tidal’ made Fiona Apple a star 25 years ago. Its success nearly overwhelmed her. 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z The musicians napped on mattresses in the back of the bus, improvised roadside cricket matches and gathered for post-concert music sessions in hotel rooms or spartan dormitory halls. Dayanita Singh’s Hands-On Photography 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z He lives in a spartan cubbyhole of an apartment. ‘I’m Leaving Now’ Review: When the Price of a Better Life Is Exile 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The compositions on Divers are less sprawling than on her previous albums–but even where they favor the spartan over the orchestral, they trade in weightier material. Joanna Newsom's Deep Dive 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The spartan demo uses America’s guitar chords as Jackson sings about finding a mysterious utopia but regretfully leaving it behind to return to his family. Michael Jackson, the Remix 2014-05-07T16:08:06Z I had been warned that the lodgings would be spartan. Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Shanti Garden’s spotless but spartan bungalows are a less expensive alternative to the Shambala, and are much closer to the beach. Next Stop: Peace, Love and Views in Turkey?s Kabak Valley 2010-06-24T18:18:00Z But as one of his newfound criminal buddies observes, he lives like a drug addict, in a tiny, spartan one-room apartment in a student-housing complex. “Easy Money”: Crime film of the year 2012-07-12T20:30:00Z Sumac’s early years in New York, as part of a group called the Inca Taqui Trio, were spartan. On the trail of Yma Sumac: The exotica legend came from Peru, but her career was all Hollywood 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z This striking, spartan set, which is pierced by unnerving colored lights during the course of the 75-minute show, suggests both a cage and a cold corner of virtual reality. ‘Grounded’ at Studio Theatre: A new view of drone warfare Kith Treats, the newly opened “cereal bar” in Brooklyn, is a spartan, all-white dessert cafe stuck on to the front of the high-end athletic wear and shoe store, Kith. Cereal out of a shoebox: New York's latest food trend 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Like so many other places in the era of Noma, it is tastefully spartan in appearance. Restaurant Review: Tuome in the East Village 2014-11-04T05:00:00Z Colorful Laundry Room After Leigh Anne Montgomery treated the spartan space like a canvas and liberally dabbed her own artistic touches throughout to create a laundry and project room. 2010-02-08T16:51:00Z Their lack of accoutrements have nothing to do with an inability to afford them; rather, their spartan way of living is a choice. "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z The spartan setting suits the family just fine. T Magazine: Le Shack 2011-08-19T14:30:50Z While the theatrical claustrophobia of “Gett” – which never leaves its spartan, constricted courtroom setting – certainly demands some audience adjustment, it also focuses our attention on Viviane’s Sophoclean combination of agony and rage. “Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem”: A riveting divorce drama, Israeli-style 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z On the right bank sat a busy Indian village, Govindghat, its one street lined with spartan hotels and shops brimming with Sikh religious items and souvenirs. In the Himalayas, Journeys of Faith and Flowers 2013-05-31T18:19:51Z The set is spartan: two chairs and a small, black table that can travel to wherever the celebrity is. Celebs Will Say Anything if You Blast Them With Hot Sauce 2018-03-27T04:00:00Z The tiny, four-table restaurant has spartan, Scandinavian-like furnishings, with cuisine that showcases the 35 local herbs grown in Aga’s adjacent garden. In the Heart of the Dolomites, Hiking and Haute Cuisine 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z His camera splits its time between the velvety shadows of the Barcelona apartment and the spartan whiteness of Alex’s place in Los Angeles. Review: In ‘10.000 km,’ Lovers an Ocean Apart Struggle to Connect 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Gregory and Joe were sent to share a spartan room, while I got my own. Explorer: Along the Trail of Korea’s Mountain Spirits 2012-11-30T18:43:12Z Compared to some of her other recipes — like beef Bourguignon or poached eggs in aspic — it's practically spartan. What Julia Child's favorite soup recipe teaches us about the art of cooking 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z The spartan huts generally sleep up to eight people. A Cool Glide Through Maine 2012-02-17T20:45:41Z Atmosphere Neat and spartan, with well-spaced tables and a counter facing the open kitchen. Freek’s Mill Spins Romance Near a Superfund Site 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z And the production, while spartan, doesn’t stint on theatrical flair, as when the Valkyries, charged with carrying slain warriors to Valhalla, attach cords to the men’s bodies, which then float up in solemn limpness. Review: The Met Opera’s Next ‘Ring’ Will Be a Sea Change 2021-11-21T05:00:00Z Now a museum, it is a spartan place, full of black-and-white photos of the president and relics of his 25-year reign. Journeys: In Taiwan, Steaming Pools of Paradise 2010-03-19T15:29:00Z As for the gritty authenticity of the culinary world — the bad-boy chefs, spartan living accommodations and stoner roommates that Janette deals with — “he nailed it,” Mr. Chang said of Mr. Bourdain. ?Treme? Sharpens Its Focus on Food 2011-06-04T23:30:15Z Contestants pass restless nights in spartan quarters resembling a school gymnasium. The allure of Netflix's brutal "Squid Game" owes a debt to our predatory upbringing 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z And it is a thoroughly designed work whose drab palette and spartan sets play their part in perfuming the entire story with paranoia, a sense that something isn’t right. The seductive deceptions of “Homecoming”: Julia Roberts shines in Sam Esmail’s latest score 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Commuting to Disneyland Minneapolis’ Great Northern Depot was never as boastful as its palatial East Coast cousins, but its well-appointed, spartan, Midwestern reserve was gorgeous nonetheless. Commuting to Disneyland 2012-07-14T16:00:00Z Go spirit-focused and spartan, or muddle in half a kiwi and six raspberries if you like. A make-your-own-Old-Fashioned bar is the sanity-saving solution your Thanksgiving needs 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z The spartan living quarters, however, had been crammed around the entrance floor, above an arsenal of gunpowder and cannonballs, and below the wind-scythed roof deck. Napoleon-proof your home: convert a Martello tower 2010-12-20T21:31:01Z While the cooking was a sure thing, the setting was spartan. Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The magnificent rain that fell later that night over Anaula’s spartan cabins drowned out the symphony of sounds coming from insects and birds. Latin America 2011 : Suriname, South America?s Hidden Treasure 2011-09-16T18:55:00Z The survivor’s calculus is frank, even as we witness those same nurses muscling their way through spartan university conditions, knowingly graduating into the teeth of the disaster’s wreckage.. In ‘Zo,’ Love Must Overcome Class Difference and Disaster 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z When he moves into Mount Carmel, the Davidian compound on the outskirts of Waco, he finds more than 100 residents living in a spartan dwelling that, he writes, was “meant to purify our spirits.” An Audiobook Gives New Life to the Haunting Memoir of a Waco Survivor 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z It was, from the start, a more eccentric and spartan approach to Buddhism than the Indian-rooted traditions that preceded it. The Lessons of Nothingness From Maverick Zen Monks 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z There are a variety of inns within a mile or two of the sanctuary — as well as a spartan state-run lodge right inside the park. India, Through a Birder?s Eyes 2011-01-14T20:30:41Z Founded in 1974, the center works in a spartan rented office in northwest Washington. Perspective | When student journalists need defending, these lawyers swoop in. For free. 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z We meet in Franzen's spartan writing studio in New York's Upper East Side. Jonathan Franzen: 'I must be near the end of my career ? people are starting to approve' 2010-09-24T23:03:00Z They arrived for a staged reading, a spartan workshop production assembled in under 29 hours of rehearsal as a preview for potential backers and other interested parties. Sting Frees Himself With the Writing of ‘The Last Ship’ 2013-09-12T12:00:01Z In a Victorian house in North London on a recent afternoon, Frank Auerbach, one of Britain’s foremost painters, was working in his spartan, paint-spattered studio with a vigor belying his 91 years. At 91, Frank Auerbach Is Still Searching for the Perfect Image 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Then there are the meals — many good, some spartan. Timothy Egan Makes Room for the Holy Spirit 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z It was as spartan and streamlined as many of Mr. Costa’s designs. | Calvin Klein’s Star-Studded Party for Francisco Costa 2013-09-14T00:30:09Z I have travelled to Copenhagen to meet Oppenheimer in the spacious, spartan apartment close to the riverfront that he has recently bought with his Japanese partner, Shu. Joshua Oppenheimer: why I returned to Indonesia’s killing fields 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z In contrast to the shelves of superhero figurines, T-shirts, Beanie Babies and other memorabilia common among surviving comic and niche collectable stores, Collector’s Corner is fairly spartan in its accoutrements. Story near end for Grand Rapids comic shop owners 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z There are also a number of contraptions that gesture at the technocratic defiance and the retro cool of flipping open a spartan phone. A Hardy Group Holds Out on Smartphones 2012-03-23T20:45:14Z In this spartan dining room, she pays homage to the chaatwallahs of Chowpatty Beach and Breach Candy in Mumbai, India, where she grew up. The Top 10 Cheap (and Well-Traveled) Places to Eat in 2016 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z I caught it in a Northampton flat, and though the clutter of everyday domesticity would normally add to the experience, here the spartan surroundings rather worked against it. Henry and Elizabeth 2010-06-16T21:40:00Z Home for me at that time was fairly spartan – a small flat overlooking the Thames. David Nott: ‘They told me my chances of leaving Aleppo alive were 50/50’ 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z My standard double — the basic room — felt a bit like a spartan cell, with its dull gray, brown and pale mauve walls, industrial light fixtures and cream furnishings. An Edinburgh Hotel With a Boutique Sensibility (on Steroids) 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z This was a slum school, built with Comic Relief money: spartan and still short of books. Why Comic Relief is still a cunning plan 2013-02-04T22:46:53Z Windows on two walls let the early-evening light into a spartan dining room with wide floorboards and a cheery bar. Freek’s Mill Spins Romance Near a Superfund Site 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z A former vegetarian, she focuses on produce, especially on the farm-fresh kind that is currently in vogue, but not in a spartan way. A Cooking Blog Yields a Franchise and a Husband 2012-12-12T19:11:10Z The spartan set removed even the lightest of relief from the listener’s experience. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z “And if it gets to that point,” said Bookbinder, a short, balding man who keeps his spartan office stocked with rice cakes, “he might rather resign.” Trump has been great for the economy. The anti-Trump economy, that is. 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z Although one of the many luminaries in pictures on the wall of Kelly’s shop is Les Paul, the design Kelly favors for his own guitars derives from Leo Fender, specifically his spartan Telecaster. ‘Carmine Street Guitars’ Review: A Portrait of an Ax Meister 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z The play is performed with virtually no visual embroidery: Debra Booth’s spartan set consists of simply a few seats in a subway car, a deli cashier’s counter, and a wooden table and chairs. It’s spring in the hearts of the characters of ‘Summer’ 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z Recent images of Osama bin Laden's spartan accommodation also presented this problem. Gaddafi, the great-taste dictator of interior design 2011-08-25T17:03:47Z The scenery is so spartan and uniform that it seems like a fool's errand. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-07-06T23:05:20Z Holl's paintings and engravings of the poor, including hungry children and weeping widows in spartan cottage interiors, look sentimental to modern eyes, but were at the time regarded as masterpieces of social realism. Paint it black: Frank Holl, master of Victorian darkness 2013-06-18T16:36:56Z With its small screens and old seats, as well as limited range of movies, this cinema is certainly spartan compared to its flashier chain alternatives. Cine-files: Premiere Cinemas, Romford 2013-04-30T13:30:00Z Ascetic Christians were hermits and monks who renounced almost everything and prayed and thought amongst terrifyingly spartan surroundings, mostly in the desert. Faith should harness art's appeal 2010-07-12T15:00:00Z And so he took a spartan room in the back of a yoga studio at the inn that doubled as a makeshift work space. North Beach Leathers Is in Business Again 2012-07-25T21:01:13Z I packed up my spartan encampment and made one last stop at Lost Lake, the first reservoir constructed in the Wichitas, where I stretched my restless legs along the meandering Kite Trail. One night in the nation’s first big-game wildlife refuge 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Peggy Sue, a British band, shared the bill, heading toward punk primitivism from a different angle: the spartan relentlessness within Celtic and Appalachian music. Music Review: Counseling Women on Self-Respect Amid Tunes of Punky Rage 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z The jarring contrast between the residents and the occupiers prowling the area with flashlights and guns offers a tragic vision of a spartan desert paradise facing extinction. At New York Film Festival, History and Detectives 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z When she moves with her mother to a new town, which is inundated by a flood, their lives diverge - and Eunice is befriended by Rose, who lives a spartan life in the woods. Dale Kushner's debut is '50s coming-of-age tale 2013-05-13T15:57:08Z Members of the small crew — including the director, cinematographer, cameraman and script supervisor — clustered around Mr. Baldwin inside the cramped, spartan set. A Call of ‘Cold Gun!’ A Live Round. And Death on a Film Set. 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Some of the songs have been recorded by others, but Ms. Berg reclaims them with her clear, tremulous, centered voice and arrangements that are restrained but never spartan. Playlist Jon Pareles: Wistful Country, Politics and a Hint of the Divine 2011-05-25T19:02:17Z Inside makeshift housing on farms, where living conditions are often squalid and spartan. Facing a labor crisis, South Korea turns to migrants. Why are they more likely to die on the job? 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Tharp added that conscripts of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s lived a more spartan existence than the prosperous, middle-class youth of today’s South Korea. North trumps South when it comes to martial pomp, circumstance 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z The spartan accommodations of years past are over. Fewer college football programs are leaving campus for training camps even in portal era 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z That left Quirk with a spartan staff at first, but it also gave him the opportunity to fill those empty offices with staff members who shared his vision for the future. CEO Brendan Quirk narrows the focus of USA Cycling with an eye on worlds and the Olympics 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z Gov. Ron DeSantis’s reboot of his struggling presidential campaign began in the spartan basement of a hotel in a rural Iowa town. DeSantis 2.0: Budget Venues, but a Familiar Stump Speech 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z "We could live a more spartan lifestyle to save for a deposit but our mental health is important too - going out and seeing friends matters." 'I moved abroad to save but still can't afford a mortgage' 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z They’re the three spartan boats that make up the fleet of the Balboa Island Ferry, Newport Beach’s oldest business. Column: In Newport Beach, an old ferry company navigates choppy waters toward zero emissions 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z In interviews, two workers told of laboring on the farm for 11 days behind a locked gate, under spartan conditions. California’s weed workers face exploitation and death. Finally, the state is stepping in 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z After touring the rice fields, Robin Koda climbed into her Ford van, a spartan vehicle that shuddered angrily over the farm’s rutted roads. L.A.’s sushi revolution was fueled by this secret ingredient from the Central Valley 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z Mickelson spent Tuesday fondly recalling his amateur days, when he spent nights in the Crow’s Nest, a quaint-if-somewhat spartan accommodation on the second floor of the Augusta National clubhouse. Mickelson back at Masters after year away from Augusta 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Afterwards, the band were taken for a meal in the tuck shop and were shown Bloomfield's typically spartan dorm room. The Beatles: How a schoolboy made the band's earliest known UK concert recording 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “This was cold, damp early October in Baltimore. If something was physically wrong with Poe, being cooped — kept in chilly and spartan conditions — could have been disastrous for his system,” Dawidziak said. Did voter fraud kill Edgar Allan Poe? 2023-03-26T04:00:00Z She barely left her spartan bedroom, Reyes said, and couldn’t talk about what had happened. Sex trafficking plea deal unending ‘nightmare’ for Texas mom 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z I bailed on the birthday trip and initiated spartan austerity measures to get back on track. I Spent Two Years Revenge Spending. It Was Hard to Stop. 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z “Whenever someone’s going to make a financial change, they imagine this spartan lifestyle,” said Madison Sharick, a certified financial planner in Pittsburgh. When It Comes to Money, Your Brain Can Be Your Own Worst Enemy 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Every day that she can, Bella walks through the glassy door on a spartan stretch of Los Angeles that is emblazoned with the motto, “Save a life! Narcan Here.” Amid an overdose crisis, a California grant that helped syringe programs is drying up 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z He lounges in a spartan room in a white tunic, taking swigs from a water bottle as he tells his story on a video call. Hidden hydrogen: Earth may hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z In Jerusalem, the families of the seven Israelis killed on Friday grieved in cramped, spartan homes, welcoming a steady flow of mourners. As Israelis Grieve, Some Palestinians Exult, and Some Fear What’s Next 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The prime minister’s office and suite is spartan, its only touch of luxury being a turquoise-colored washroom sink. Cold War Nuclear Bunker Lures Tourists Worried About New Threats 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z But the daughter of a wealthy Indian diamond merchant is now living a spartan life - dressed in coarse white saris, barefoot and going door-to-door to seek alms. Why an eight-year-old Indian diamond heiress became a nun 2023-01-23T05:00:00Z Director Kimille Howard skillfully wrangles focus and lends a mythic quality to Dawson’s spartan studio, but there are frequent dead zones and a few too many loops and lapses in the script. Review | An impresaria rediscovered in ‘The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson’ 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z But the way he has emerged from pre-season training, and those three spartan weeks in Florida, means I may need to adjust my sights. Murray still doing himself 'justice' at Grand Slams 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z It was not clear whether this would be the case across the country, though mandatory centralized quarantine in spartan facilities has been one of the most controversial aspects of zero covid. China moves to ease ‘zero covid’ but tightens vise on protesters 2022-12-01T05:00:00Z The birds return in “Drainface,” another spartan lullaby where Callahan takes an entire 20 seconds to deliver a strangely demolishing insult: “Every time you open your mouth, dead or dying seagulls fall out.” Review | Bill Callahan’s voice is getting deeper. So are his songs. 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Harteveldt called the option “spartan” and “borderline utilitarian” compared with what it was decades ago. What does ‘first class’ even mean anymore? 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Indeed, Biscay and Aragon have never seemed so spartan — especially compared with last season’s overstuffed Seville. Review | With a no-nonsense ‘Il trovatore,’ WNO comes back with a vengeance 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Residents who tested positive were routinely shipped off to spartan isolation rooms — with parents sometimes separated from their children. Hong Kong to abolish hotel quarantine in bid to end city’s isolation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z "This place has a history," he tells the BBC, surveying the spartan surroundings comprising a large wood oven and long table used to knead and shape the dough. Antigua's traditional bread shops struggle amid food price hikes 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z And while the dialogue is pretty spartan, including many iterations of “Are you okay?” and “It’s okay,” punctuated by periodic swearwords, the cinematography is suitably, almost sweepingly acrophobic. Review | ‘Fall’: Sweaty palms and a bad screenplay at 2,000 feet 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z If all goes well, her spartan storefront will be transformed with new shelves and more flowers. Displaced by War, Ukrainians Open a New Front as Entrepreneurs 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z By then he was living the spartan life of a militant after helping Bin Laden to form al Qaeda. Ayman al-Zawahiri: from Cairo physician to al Qaeda leader 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z Simon Nelson, a devoted golf fan from Northern Ireland, brought his wife and two young daughters to the event, and they are staying in one of the larger, spartan tents. How the British Open's affordable tent city became 'the largest hotel in Scotland' 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z These days he is living in a tiny, spartan apartment. Last year, Cubans took to the streets. Now they’re fleeing the island. 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z He has not been deprived, however, of the panel’s highly publicized hearings which echo in his otherwise spartan cell. Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes listening to Jan. 6 committee hearings from jail 2022-07-11T04:00:00Z It likewise seems in tune with the spartan setting, in which you can drive for hundreds of miles and feel like you’ve not gone anywhere. Review | Estranged siblings reconnect, fitfully, in the moody ‘Montana Story’ 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z These recipes are not spartan; they’re as big and bountiful as ever. Tieghan Gerard’s spring pasta embodies her fresh take on comfort food 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Almost 300,000 people who’ve tested positive or had contact with someone positive have been forcibly moved to spartan quarantine centers. Column: The cost of China’s harsh 'zero COVID' policy? Human suffering and economic damage 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z His early solo albums “The Winding Sheet” and “Whiskey for the Holy Ghost” were marvels, spartan and sad. Perspective | Mark Lanegan lived a life of pain and never shied away from sharing it 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z From a spartan hospital room Van Gogh produced about 150 works, among them “The Wheat Field Behind Saint-Paul Hospital,” which captures that poignant, poetic view from his window. You’ve seen ‘Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience.’ Now experience a real Van Gogh. 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Back at the resort base, I found spartan lunch options, a closed tuning shop and an empty Foggy Goggle — the après-ski bar at Stevens that has yet to open this season. Closed terrain, staff shortages plague Stevens Pass at start of Washington’s 2021-22 ski season 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z You might even decide that a weekend at a spa or a hot springs will set you on the path to a new, spartan you. From sacred to profane: A brief history of Southern California's hot springs 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z Next door, the closest neighbor has used one spartan strand of white lights to spell out the word “DITTO” across the front of their house. For a festive holiday bowl, this pomegranate and citrus punch brings the merry 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z The Wrangler Sport is comparatively spartan, forgoing air conditioning, power windows, power door locks and smartphone integration. Edmunds: Ford Bronco versus Jeep Wrangler 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The spartan landscape of shingle and scrub is home to two nuclear power stations, but also hosts a vast, insect-rich nature reserve. Migrant crisis: The windswept beaches of opportunity and fear 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z Photo by Mitchell Clark / The Verge It’s also comfortable and simple, without being spartan like a Honda Element or old Jeep Wrangler. Rivian’s R1T electric pickup truck took me to the top of the mountain 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z He doesn’t have the right political connections to get electricity otherwise, he says, a frail figure seated in a spartan living room. Shadow contracts, smoke, mirrors keep the lights out in Iraq 2021-09-26T04:00:00Z The structures tend to be sturdy if spartan. A Pandemic Space Race: Self-Storage Roars Back 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z “They should have provided us with help when we came back,” said Fatima Mustafa, 47, sitting on the floor of her family’s spartan home. Syrian detention camp rocked by dozens of killings blamed on Islamic State women 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z All things considered, it works better than I expected, especially since the bikes have such a spartan control setup. VanMoof adds manual gear shifting to S3 and X3 e-bikes 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z The Dona Ana Range Complex is a spartan training area located in the high deserts of New Mexico, about 25 miles northwest of Fort Bliss. Afghanistan refugees arrive in Texas for processing 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z The first zoos housed animals behind metal bars in spartan cages. Opinion | Modern Zoos Are Not Worth the Moral Cost 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z Tyson Fury says he will expose Anthony Joshua as a "fake" in the ring because "he's a businessman and I'm a spartan". 'He's a business man and I'm a spartan' 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Unlike those moguls, he’s a buff, teetotal vegan with spartan tastes. ‘Record companies have me on a dartboard’: the man making millions buying classic hits 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z Unlike other colleges, VMI’s unique military rigor and spartan living conditions have provided some additional challenges. ‘All hands on deck:’ Inside quarantine at Military Institute 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z They are waiting together at the spartan Bread of Life, where about 180 migrants are housed in several buildings. At the border, confusion, anxiety and hope as U.S. unveils new process for asylum-seekers 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z Other lawmakers, though, remained trapped in their guesthouses — spartan rooms with bunk beds and limited cooking facilities. Myanmar’s military is back in charge after coup. But it faces a nation transformed. 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z “They will be spartan games, with all of the usual services reduced.” AP Interview: All 33 sports ‘unanimously’ want Tokyo Games 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z This, too, marked a disconnection from tradition—though it was oddly in keeping with Biden’s presidential campaign events, which were as COVID-consciously spartan as Trump’s were defiantly crowded. America’s first ‘virtual’ inauguration ushers in a transformed era 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Her neighbor, Carlos Beltran, 35, keeps more spartan quarters with the second bunk latched up and only a few cleaning supplies on the floor. $130,000 for an 8-foot-by-8-foot shed? That's what L.A. is paying in a bid to house the homeless 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z For the reindeer herders, food is more immediate, its pursuit an organizing principle of life in spartan regions where vigilance determines survival. In the Arctic, Reindeer Are Sustenance and a Sacred Presence 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z He led me, on foot – he does not drive, and usually cycles everywhere – to his home, where he lives a spartan existence. How maverick rewilders are trying to turn back the tide of extinction 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Casualties of the transition included East Germany’s clunky cars, the Trabant and the more upmarket - though still spartan by Western standards - Wartburg. AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z Casualties of the transition included East Germany’s clunky cars, the Trabant and the more upmarket — though still spartan by Western standards — Wartburg. AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z As Rafael Rodriguez slowly told his astonishing story, I could see on my computer screen a spartan office behind him and a single bamboo shoot, its stem curled beneath a burst of foliage. Isolation and opioids during the pandemic 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z The depot, effectively the museum’s engine room, is far more spartan than the main museum, next door, which is currently closed for a major restoration. Mirrored depot will open Dutch museum’s storage to public 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z Now Mr. Rusesabagina is back in Rwanda, but this time under arrest, in a spartan cell in Kigali’s central police station, where he sleeps in a simple bed draped in a mosquito net. How the Hero of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ Fell Into a Vengeful Strongman’s Trap 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z A government team travels from one spartan, thatch-roofed home to the next, plucking the dead from the beds and chairs where they took their last breaths. Peru’s Indigenous turn to ancestral remedies to fight virus 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Quinn, unable to prepare the Katherine for the start of the season, was forced to borrow the TM 2 — her father’s spartan but seaworthy lobster boat. One Family Has Delivered the Mail by Boat for 115 Years. Is This the Last? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The crisis has also underscored the vulnerability of migrant crewmen on vessels with spartan living conditions and notoriously exploitative labor practices that have been compared to slavery — even before the COVID-19 outbreak. Philippine fishermen stranded at sea by pandemic: 'We think about jumping overboard' 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Totoro is, of course, an instantly iconic character that you no doubt recognize, but the movie itself is surprisingly spartan; almost nothing happens beyond “cute kids in rural Japan meet Totoro.” Where to start with Studio Ghibli 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z On a recent Sunday, he offered services from his spartan apartment in the Bronx via live stream. A pastor fights for flock in war against an invisible enemy 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z She lives up several flights of stairs in a spartan, three-room apartment with old photos of her son on the walls. Virus prevents diaspora Venezuelans from sending money home 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z The spartan decor and security guards roaming the grounds added to his sense of isolation. He was symptom free. But the coronavirus stayed in his body for 40 days 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z As he talks, Roberts sits for a few minutes in his spartan condominium, then stands, then sits again, often taking a deep breath and wringing his thin hands, occasionally holding his hands to his head. The sandbagging scandal that shook golf - Golf Digest 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z His shows are now as spartan as they once were baroque: just the models, the clothes, the viewers and the building’s uneven matchstick wooden floors. The Many Lives of Marc Jacobs 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z The house’s austerity reads as minimal rather than spartan, a submission to the surrounding native trees that grow through and around the structure. Paraguay’s Response to Modernist Architecture? Clay, Mud and Timber 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z But inside the spartan visiting locker room players stayed composed. Last year's trades played vital role in transforming Clippers into title contender 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z When Dr. Cohen received the Nobel Prize, Coffey said, nothing changed about his manner, his spartan laboratory or his casual wardrobe. Stanley Cohen, Nobel Prize-winning scientist who studied cellular growth, dies at 97 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Rooms were dark and spartan, lacking comforts or decoration. Haitian orphanage worker says 13 children die in fire 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z Some are spartan, with just public toilets and access to water, while others have hot showers, washing machines, shared kitchens and barbecue grills. To experience New Zealand’s rugged beauty, go by camper van 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z I started to feel different about it,” he recalls one day, sitting across a white laminate table at Beyond’s spartan headquarters. Ethan Brown went vegan, but missed fast food. So he started a revolution 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The typically spartan room was decorated with helium balloons and sparkling streamers. At a homeless shelter in D.C., a special — but bittersweet — Thanksgiving meal 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z The industry is known to have strict rules for their stars — including dating bans, spartan training and diets, and sometimes slave-like and unfair contracts. Singer Goo Hara’s death shines light on dark side of K-pop 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The industry is known to have strict rules for their stars - including dating bans, spartan training and diets, and sometimes slave-like and unfair contracts. Singer Goo Hara’s death shines light on dark side of K-pop 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Here, 40 miles from the nearest Starbucks, the U.A.W. owns a spartan retreat known to few people outside the auto industry, though it opened nearly 50 years ago. Corruption Inquiry Spreads to U.A.W. Lakeside Resort 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z Outside the chambers, they are exiled to spartan offices, with a single aide each, in the far reaches of the Brussels compound. The Brexit Party crashed the gates of the European Parliament — and got stuck there 2019-11-24T05:00:00Z Younger staffers who worked with Mulhauser in the Women’s Information Network got help furnishing their spartan places. Perspective | ‘Anything you want, take it’: A downsizing party after 45 years in the same house 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z This spartan operation is typical of the often unseen blue-collar foundation of the Internet Age economy, where brute force, not gigabytes, reigns. In manufacturing Midwest, signs of trouble amid good times 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z Large, airy rooms with low beds and spartan furniture are arranged around a central courtyard of red earth, where glossy, large-leaved verdure grows. This Is an Indian House, According to One Architect 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z In the five-room exhibit, the photos by Walker Evans show the spartan homes of coal miners in West Virginia, which had beds, tables and not much else. 'Families were devastated': looking back on the Great Depression via art 2019-09-18T04:00:00Z When he got back, he posted a Twitter thread about his experience, including photos of his spartan living quarters, his mosquito bites, and biometric readings from his Apple Watch and Oura ring. Silicon Valley’s Crisis of Conscience 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z Later we decamped to his apartment, a flimsy, spartan place that nevertheless held the most exquisite furniture, tables he had inlaid with ash and birch and varnished till they gleamed. Opinion | In Praise of Online Dating 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The Grisales family was on a spartan budget for the first years. A Southwest Florida man’s scary journey to a new homeland 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Golf’s next big thing began in earnest in Cromwell, Conn. The quartet sat at a spartan table on a quiet Wednesday afternoon, but the conversation that surrounded them was far from hushed. Weighing expectations versus reality for Matthew Wolff, Viktor Hovland and the tour pro class of 2019 - Golf Digest 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z Inside, Anna Gray watched her two sons Patrick, 5, and Harold, 9, bounce around the spartan room as she recounted her life. Homelessness jumps 12% in L.A. County and 16% in the city, leaving officials ‘stunned’ 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z “It was a series of tunnels. Quite spartan,” she said of Fort Southwick. D-day remembered: a series of interviews on the 75th anniversary 2019-06-03T04:00:00Z Their spartan living room is furnished with just a desk and four dining-room chairs. The preachers getting rich from poor Americans 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z It places profit incentives on making the incarceration process as spartan as possible, and insulates from public accountability the wardens and guards entrusted with maintaining humane conditions. Pay immigration detainees a fair wage 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z And yet the spartan bleachers were evidence that more might be at play. PGA Championship 2019: Weather, timing are not helping attendance thus far at Bethpage - Golf Digest 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z That includes a much more spartan interface, an extremely limited 32 blocks to build with, as well as all of the bugs and technical issues that were present at the time. You can now play Minecraft Classic in your browser 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z When Arenas arrived in Washington in 2003, he remembers the players’ lounge was as spartan as a hospital waiting room — a color TV and a couple of lounge chairs. First priority for Wizards new GM? Establishing a culture of accountability 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Reflecting on Tesla’s financial position in the wake of the challenges, Musk said it would be “healthy to be on a spartan diet for a while.” Tesla lost $700 million in the first quarter with Model 3 problems 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z But the two other men at the spartan camp said they didn't think Mr. Gonzalez was part of their group. Militia Defiant in New Mexico: ‘It's My God-Given Right to Be Here’ 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z I was assigned a spot in the Champions Locker Room, which was regally spartan and wafted in nostalgia. My round at Augusta National: A dream realized, and a window that almost closed - Golf Digest 2019-04-16T04:00:00Z Despite a shower of awards and positions recognizing his leadership, Broecker led a simple life: jeans and jumpers, a dented car and a small, spartan apartment near Columbia University. Wallace Smith Broecker (1931-2019) 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Free after months of interrogations and spartan prison conditions, Ghosn’s first stop was his lawyer’s office. Carlos Ghosn readies for epic legal fight after finally being freed from Tokyo jail 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z In a meeting room adorned with portraits of past cardinals, down a hall from Cardinal Bergoglio’s spartan quarters, the two men surveyed church and local politics around Latin America, according to a witness. ‘It Will Cause a Scandal.’ The Pope and a Trusted U.S. Cardinal Clash Over Sex-Abuse Crisis 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z They aren’t as spartanly topped as their Neapolitan cousins, but neither are they overloaded. In Kenmore, Seaplane Kitchen soars to lofty heights with delectable pizzas and modern American flair 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Waters’ office, filled with awards, books and photos of her with President Obama, Nelson Mandela and other famous figures, is a stark contrast to the spartan accommodations of freshmen such as Porter. Maxine Waters has a powerful new House position — and freshmen who could make it challenging 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “It was immaculately spartan: The floors just shined, the walls were clean, the hallways were empty. There was no one around, no sounds.” El Chapo escaped two prisons in Mexico, but no one’s ever busted out of ‘the ADX’ 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z In fact, AOC’s “face layering” regime looks positively spartan in comparison to the laborious regime of about 10 different steps adopted by some women in South Korea and Japan. Skin deep: why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s beauty regime split the internet 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z That the Hope school survives to this day — now in a building with six spartan classrooms — is astonishing. In a village where all the parents have left, the 'left-behind' children miss out on China's economic miracle 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Yet she always returned to her spartan trailer in the woods, where she prayed for hours and explored the world of art she found in books and postcards. Sister Wendy Beckett, a Catholic nun who became an unlikely TV celebrity, dies at 88 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z “What happens to them now? It doesn’t interest me,” Mr. Ruffin declared in an interview in his spartan parliamentary office this week. The Question for France: Where Do the Yellow Vests Go From Here? 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z The camera pans over a blocky, low-resolution, yet spartanly beautiful landscape as the sun rises. Zelda: Ocarina of Time at 20 – melancholy masterpiece changed games forever 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Uniquely in Colombia’s elite-dominated political landscape, Betancur wasn’t the son of patriarchs but instead rose to the pinnacle of power from a spartan start as the son of a poor farmer in Antioquia state. Ex-Colombian President Belisario Betancur dies at 95 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Qassim and his family live in a spartan, leaky two-room apartment, tucked into a jumble of alleyways tangled with electric lines, pipes and Internet cables. Palestinian refugees stuck in limbo, as U.S. moves to redefine their status 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z It’s a strikingly shot story about a man who gets swept up in the drug trade that’s filled with big characters, spartan landscapes, and a vibe that seems to echo classic Westerns. 9 new trailers you should watch this week 2018-11-24T05:00:00Z Mostly, though, the spartan exterior did little to hide the stadium’s mercenary purpose. FedEx Field wasn’t built to be loud, and the Redskins have done little to change that 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z In August, a group of Foton officials gathered in a small spartan office in low-rise building near Tokyo’s posh Ginza district. A slew of electric truck plans may deliver the goods for China's EV... 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The room is spartan; there’s no TV, and there are loud signs in various locations: “NO HOT PLATES,” and “NO COOKING.” Talking about Politics with My Brother 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z In Luca Guadagnino’s film, a coven of witches are running an extremely arty, spartan dance academy and company in Cold War Berlin. ‘Suspiria’: a wildly overlong horror film that wears out its audience 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Flitting between the beds at her spartan clinic, she cajoled mothers, dispensed orders to medics and spoon-fed milk to sickly infants. The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s War 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z In the Akron encampment, conditions on a recent weekday were spartan, tidy and quiet. Why a Private Landowner Is Fighting to Keep the Homeless on His Property 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z The guards led me into a spartan office where I found Mr. Lemtongthai seated on a bench near the wall, wearing an orange jumpsuit with “Corrections” written in circular patterns all over it. How to Stop Poaching and Protect Endangered Species? Forget the ‘Kingpins’ 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z As she grew older, her father took an interest in her and she moved into his enormous but famously spartan house. In ‘Small Fry,’ Steve Jobs’ daughter writes of being on the outside looking in 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z In Guadagnino’s film, a coven of witches are running an extremely arty, spartan dance academy and company in Cold War Berlin. ‘Suspiria’: a wildly overlong horror film that wears out its audience 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z On the next story is the couple’s bedroom — again, a mattress surrounded by light — and a roof terrace, which is all white, spartan, hot and void of greenery, with a view of the street below. In Barcelona, a House That Was Remade by Taking It Apart 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z The youths did military drills in the baking heat, slept in spartan concrete dorm rooms and ate lentils and rice. ‘We don’t have any fear’: India’s angry young men and its lynch mob crisis 2018-08-26T04:00:00Z Dollar General, which tends to build spartan shops on the edge of towns to catch passing traffic on main roads, does none of these. Where even Walmart won't go: how Dollar General took over rural America 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z The other was the Violin Concerto in D, or rather an anti-violin concerto — spiky, spartan, with each of the four movements opening with a deliciously acidic, spread-out chord for the soloist. Review: In his Hollywood Bowl debut, Matthias Pintscher lends some snap to Stravinsky 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z “If you wanted a drink, you had to get a hose. It was pretty spartan in the beginning.” The Citi Open, entering its 50th edition, is a tennis tournament with a unique mission 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z Instead, the new Google Photos looks closer to Instagram: spartan and minimalist in its interface with tons of white space. Android apps are heading to a whiter future with rounder rectangles 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Dinnertime, once an ever-changing parade of feasts that charmed the palates of Steve and Jennifer, has become a spartan affair of the easily achievable. ‘I’m ashamed’: Americans blame Trump after mom’s deportation 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Typically, the aesthetic authoritarian likes spartan design: Doric columns and militarized courtyards. What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past? 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z The spartan accommodations on Fortitude Ranch are a selling point. Fortitude Ranch built as survival shelter, bed-and-breakfast in West Virginia 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z My grandmother’s health had suffered from the high altitude and dust and spartan living conditions in Topaz. Opinion | I Know What Incarceration Does to Families. It Happened to Mine. 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z In one condition, employees worked in office space that mirrored the standard, spartan, managerial model of the majority of large offices across the Western world. How to Survive Hot Weather at Work--and Not Fall Out with Colleagues 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z The accommodations may have been spartan, but the inhabited alleys were scattered relatively evenly across the city, meaning residents didn’t have to go far for work. Perspective | Laundry, Hog and Moonshine alleys: When the District’s narrow thoroughfares bore colorful names 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Many stay near the border in spartan shelters, with rows of brightly colored tents, or in dingy hotels often charging prices they struggle to pay. Migrants 'knock at front door' for asylum after Trump crackdown 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Many young women work in factories far from home, where they live crammed into spartan dormitories. What life is like for ordinary North Koreans 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z The Porta Pros are made of spartan plastic, bridged by a thin extendable metal band, and topped off with small foam pads. Koss Porta Pro Wireless review: a classic mistake 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z For this occasion the 6,000-capacity Dyer Stadium was less than a third full, the attendance not helped by the unsettled weather and spartan facilities. 'A very monumental occasion': NOLA down Houston in Major League Rugby 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z Work was hard and likely to cause lung disease or physical injury, and conditions in the workers' dormitories were spartan. Five ways China's past has shaped its present 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The Obama administration opened more family detention facilities, drawing criticism from advocates over the spartan conditions. Trump has the same Central American migrant problem as Obama 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Inside her spartan shelter, grubby mattresses are laid on the bare earth. Rebels in the Central African Republic are filling the void of an absent government 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z Seattle resembles many U.S. regions where local politics drive infrastructure costs higher than spartan 20th-century subways or international norms, said Polzin, the Florida mobility expert. Sound Transit seeks two light-rail stations in South Lake Union, only five blocks apart 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z A security camera is a spartan device, designed mostly to perform just one task well: showing you a real-time video feed of a given location, with a recorded backup to boot. Lighthouse AI’s security camera knows who you are, and when you’re home 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z What is a town, especially a small, spartanly staffed one, supposed to do? Wire-transfer scheme, ransomware attack — tiny Yarrow Point finds itself in criminals’ crosshairs 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z In an interview, after a party for volunteers at his spartan family home in Goodyear, Montenegro didn’t say whether the exposure had helped him. In an Arizona primary, Republicans debate who is more loyal to one man: Trump 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Another is that the accommodations in Melania Trump’s doghouse, where I’m guessing he might spend some time, may be a bit spartan for his tastes. Opinion | For conservatives, character counts — when you’re a Democrat 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s nondescript, spartan compared to the flashy trim of other stations, although it doesn’t need shiny colors or bright lights for good reason: it’s not selling a product. This booth isn’t selling a product. But it could be one of the PGA Show's most important exhibits - Golf Digest 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z It has a large living room that is full of light, but strangely empty and devoid of human touch, as though she had replicated, albeit more comfortably, the spartan aesthetic of a prison cell. Chelsea Manning: 'I'm a very different person than I was 10 years ago' 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z “We welcomed him with open arms. We showed him that there’s nothing here like no-go zones,” said Massaoudi, who sat Hoekstra down in his spartan office warmed by a space heater. The new ambassador to The Hague might be Dutch American, but he’s not like anyone the Dutch ever met 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z And it may not be the last time we see such a spartan presentation. Caddie remains in critical condition, labor dispute wreaks havoc on broadcast and Rory downplays heart irregularity: What you missed this weekend - Golf Digest 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z Though most days at the ashram were spent engaged in simple pursuits like meditating and writing, the grounds were not exactly spartan. Rebuilding on the Beatles, an Ashram in India Hopes for Revival 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z Drivers waiting their turn sprawl out on spartan benches and tables, blistering in the heat. From Mexico to the U.S., a Nafta Tale of Two Truckers 2018-01-06T05:00:00Z The single courtroom where terrorism trials are heard is spartan. Iraq’s rapid-fire trials send alleged ISIS members — including foreigners — to the gallows 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z The spartan restaurant is decorated with simple green tiles and some small framed news articles, some more than two decades old. ‘Don't they sell tyres?': Thai street food chef on life with a Michelin star 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z “Porcupines chew off the wood, the bees get in, and then the bears try to eat the bees,” she said, pointing to deep gouges in the siding of the spartan hunting camp there. Forest lands imperiled as aging private owners divide, sell 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Luong seemed to have little use for material goods and often lived in spartan apartments or rooms he rented in the homes of acquaintances. Dominic Luong, first Vietnamese American bishop in U.S., dies at 77 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z So the Winklevoss Bros. "live relatively spartan lives with few luxuries" - the key words there being "relative" and "few," no doubt. How the Winklevoss Twins Found Vindication in a Bitcoin Fortune 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z In this moment, it felt almost possible — almost — to forget the metal bars on the windows of the spartan room, to ignore the guards keeping silent watch, and to experience, briefly, the illusion of freedom. Bars on the Windows, Laughter Between the Lines 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Shoeless visitors can traipse across, kneel or lay on the four-by-six wool rugs, which are kaleidoscopic in color, and neither spartan nor sumptuous in texture. How an exhibition of prayer rugs aims to stand up against Trump's travel ban 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “It was a very spartan crew that did the first version of Ingress,” he says. Niantic’s first AR game Ingress is getting a massive overhaul in 2018 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z When I attended my first college football game in Athens, Ga., in 1981, it was a relatively spartan affair by today’s standards. Perspective | I wish I had the courage to ask my dad about his service in Vietnam 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z “The living conditions are a little spartan, but they’re not really a punishment of any sort,” he said. In a highly unusual move, an American general is sentenced to confinement at Guantanamo Bay 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z Even when he was hurt, he had the stamina – thanks to his spartan lifestyle and constant conditioning – and willpower to recover. Do these five retiring fighters deserve to be in boxing's Hall of Fame? 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z It was a low-budget, spartan production—music beds were added to mask the echo of his voice—but it gripped listeners, catapulting to the top of the iTunes podcast charts. The rise of the podcast adaptation 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The patch notes are pretty spartan, too, the former simply stating "PS4 Pro Support" followed by the latter noting "Improved stability." The Witcher 3 Just Got Full PlayStation 4 Pro Support 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z JUCHITAN, Mexico — The Catholic priest waited out the earthquake in his spartan quarters, praying that the walls would stand. The Mexican city with the highest number of quake deaths mourns — and gets to work 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z They slept overnight in a spartan hotel room here and ate hot food and changed into dry clothes. Escaping North Korea: ‘We had already decided to kill ourselves rather than be sent back’ 2017-09-09T04:00:00Z His bunk is spartan, with just a bit of foam padding he uses as a mattress, and a faded poster of a bikini-clad woman. My week in Lucky House: the horror of Hong Kong's coffin homes 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z The bunks themselves are spartan affairs, maybe 24 inches wide with about 24 inches of headroom with a single drawer beneath each bunk for storage. Trump has no time or words for America's dead sailors and their families 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z The South Korean government eventually stopped sending across balloons and Lee has since devoted his life to the cause, financing his operation with donations and living in spartan conditions. Living on the edge of oblivion: life along the North Korean border 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z As a result, the spartan nature of the basic economy experience will usually induce passengers to pony up the extra cash for the main cabin ticket. 7 Sneaky Things Airlines Do That Make Flying More Stressful 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z A decade ago, 16 of the 32 teams adhered to that romanticized notion of camp, leaving family behind to build cohesion in spartan dormitories on leafy campuses. Welcome to the N.F.L.’s Luxury Camp in the Mountains 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z “I didn’t know it was going to be such a controversy,” Ms. Sanders said during an interview last week in her spartan West Wing office. Now Starring in the West Wing: Sarah Huckabee Sanders 2017-08-08T04:00:00Z It’s got the larger screen, durable build, and spartan looks of a business machine. Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review: doing it right 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z But tourism on its coast remains state-run and spartan, while Morocco’s are considered some of Europe’s premier escapes. Morocco and Algeria keep building more barriers 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z She brought her children up in a converted ostrich shed before building her spartan little house. A woman fights to save her rhinos armed only with her grandmother's shotgun 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Rooms are spartan, with a simple steel bed on which there is a mattress, two sheets and a grey blanket. Make Your Bed: Small Things That Can Change Your Life … and Maybe the World by William H McRaven – digested read 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z To this day, the buildings, over the road from her spartan office block, are a shell, a reminder of Serbia’s loss of Kosovo. Ana Brnabić: 'I do not want to be branded Serbia's gay PM' 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z His diet was spartan: coffee, milk and orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil for breakfast; milk and a few biscuits for lunch; vegetables with a small portion of fish and rice for dinner. Dr. Shigeaki Hinohara, Longevity Expert, Dies at (or Lives to) 105 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z “I am a little older and wiser, and a little more humble about the role of the mayor,” he said in a recent interview at his spartan campaign headquarters on Aurora Avenue. Mike McGinn seeks second chance and political upset in his run for Seattle mayor 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z While in Virginia, the families lived a “spartan existence” so they would not rely on charity for too long, Monsen recalled, although they always scrounged to serve volunteers huge home-cooked meals. These refugees lied to escape Iraq a decade ago. Now, the U.S. might send them back. 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z She sounds as confident as ever as she slithers through songs like “Oo La La,” “Oh My God” and the spartan, Suicide-inspired “Go Baby Go.” Beth Ditto, embarking on a stomping new solo career, comes to U Street Music Hall 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z “No,” Erica Ashton, 38, said of whether she would move to the Galleria from her spartan, low-income apartment complex in a predominantly black part of northwest Houston. Federal Housing Assistance Underscores Urban Racial Divides 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z The launch center looks faintly like a Montana ranch house, complete with a spartan bedroom and small kitchen. Inside the ICBM launch facility where a turn of two keys sends a Minuteman III missile flaming toward its target 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z The muted festivities were in keeping with the spartan philosophy that propelled the 29-year-old Spaniard to the summit without fixed ropes and supplementary oxygen on both occasions last month. 'It's pretty high': climber tells how he scaled Everest twice in a week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The Guardian was allowed to observe hearings at one of the immigration courts inside the facility: a spartan, compact room with whitewashed walls, fluorescent lighting, a calendar, a clock and a US flag. One prison, two realities: detainees suffer, but locals say it keeps a poor town afloat 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z He prefers public transport but on the campaign trail there is also the spartan Labour battlebus. The fight of his life: on the road with Jeremy Corbyn 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z The Vetpaw base in the bush in Limpopo, though considerably less spartan than most “forward operating bases”, is familiar to anyone who has spent time with US forces. US army veterans find peace in protecting rhinos from poaching 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z They’re already used to spartan living as students, so why not continue to do so for a few more years? Perspective | The financial case for welcoming your adult children back home 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z A personal sound—heavy bass, spartan arrangements, rave drums, soul chords—began to take shape. Richard Russell’s XL Recordings Empire 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z And although their prose styles differed drastically, each sought out the other’s editorial advice, the spartan minimalist and the cinematic maximalist somehow finding common critical ground. Opinion | Hemingway and Dos Passos, great friends destined to be great enemies 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z The spartan accommodations may feel familiar to the opposition lawmakers who spent time in prison under the military government. In this desolate capital, lawmakers live like college students, sleeping in dorms and surviving on noodles 2017-04-19T04:00:00Z He now consults for the nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law out of a spartan Washington office. AP investigation shows Peru backsliding on illegal logging 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z Instead it focused exclusively on the remote and relatively spartan air base that was used to launch the chemical attack on Tuesday. American strikes against Syria prompt both praise and condemnation 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Comar lives in almost spartan frugality in a studio apartment in downtown San Francisco. 'These are dangerous times': the man who sued George W Bush and the Iraq war 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z When $74m was added to the annual defence ministry budget for refugee support, he saw to it that the Greek army established spartan but functional facilities where they were most needed. Where did the money go? How Greece fumbled the refugee crisis 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z There commenced the latest spartan undertaking in an unorthodox journey. Belize's American manager: Richard Orlowski's long route to Central America 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z After Vanguard played a road game in Gainesville, a couple of their players noticed the spartan set-up of their hosts. Hoop dreams: the young Texas inmates hoping for a second chance 2017-02-08T05:00:00Z The task was done using a hand-cranked frame viewer at a spartan “rewind bench” in a special nitrate film workroom decorated with images of movie stars. An American filmed the German army in WWI — until they became the enemy 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Zwilling said the original idea was that it would replace Trinity Retreat House in Larchmont, N.Y., a more spartan residence with space for 14 priests that is not “in the best physical condition.” Cardinal Dolan, Fuming Over Archdiocese’s ‘Rich’ Image, Vacations at Mansion 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z But this week, he remained 7,000 miles away, marooned with more than 100 other Somali refugees in a spartan transit center in central Nairobi that smelled of nervous sweat. For Stranded Somali Refugees, ‘Friend of America’ Is a Deadly Label 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Eventually, the chief of police for Nineveh Province, whose capital is Mosul, reconstituted his forces at a spartan base north of the city. The Desperate Battle to Destroy ISIS 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The rest, he said, gesturing at a haphazard selection of desks, books and spartan prayer rooms, was financed by worshipers. A mosque is at the center of a raw debate in the South of France 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z The bare oak foyers, with their vast flights of stairs, are spartan, reflecting the tastes of a city that is elegant yet restrained. A new concert hall is worth the wait, and the cost 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The spartan system allows Matongo to collect enough water to get through the dry season – an ever more difficult task in this arid, sparsely populated area of Zimbabwe's Manicaland province. With water short, Zimbabwe's farmers turn to capturing rain 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z “Oh, my God,” David said, remembering the moment he caught sight of the sub’s spartan kitchen. There’s nothing substandard about this submarine’s Christmas dinner 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z More famously, it happened with Amazon.com, which launched in 1995 as an online bookseller with 1 million titles and a spartan home page. How Amazon Plans To Totally Reinvent Grocery Shopping 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z This week, same thing, same guy, same spartan office, same couch where he sleeps three times a week, same uncluttered desk where he watches film until 1 a.m. Clay Helton often goes unnoticed, but he deserves credit for USC's success 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z “I can’t move as fast as I used to,” he said recently in his spartan office at police headquarters. ‘I can’t move as fast as I used to’: Maryland police officer, 84, set to retire. 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z She has been homebound for some years, and her diet remains spartan, if unorthodox: In addition to eggs, she eats bananas and ladyfinger cookies. Emma Morano, world’s oldest person, turns 117 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Shivering in Sexelance’s spartan interior on a cold November night, it’s hard to see the attraction. Copenhagen sex ambulance is safe space for capital’s red-light workers 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z An early fitness advocate, he did not smoke or drink — not even coffee or tea — and was known for his spartan vegetarian diet. Gardnar Mulloy, tennis champion known for fiery manner, dies at 102 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z He transformed a cellblock into a spartan inpatient unit for up to 20 patients and brought in Navy psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and technicians to be available around the clock. Where Even Nightmares Are Classified: Psychiatric Care at Guantánamo 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z The building itself looks fantastic too, with an unnervingly spartan quality that Moss captures well in fluid camera moves. Bloody history of 'The Charnel House' fails to muster much horror 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z He is described as spartan, humble and happy with a simple diet. Chinese TV Serves Up Lavish Living, With a Side of Shame 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It sits in an eclectic Denver neighborhood and is still a bit spartan. DEA backs off a ban on kratom, a plant used to treat opioid addiction 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z The most complex game plans in soccer are born in Pep Guardiola’s spartan office at Manchester City. Manchester City’s Nonstop Pep Talk 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z In its later years, the arena became an object of disdain, faulted for its dated decor, spartan concession stands and patched-up seats. Once home to the Lakers and L.A.'s first Democratic Convention, this arena is getting torn down with little fanfare 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z Both he and Mr. Mann caused a bit of a stir, rushing up and down the hospital’s spartan hallways and bursting into crowded patient rooms. An Investor’s Plan to Transplant Private Health Care in Africa 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z Interviewed at his spartanly furnished home while cradling a young relative, Supar said he was a naively curious 17-year-old at the time. Monument a rare but clouded window into Indonesia massacres 2016-10-04T04:00:00Z It's a bit spartan, with a tiled floor, but there's a brightly coloured duvet and alarm clock on the bedside table. Inside France's 'boot camp' for wavering radicals - BBC News 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Adkin, a spartan brick building, had few of the amenities listed. To protest segregation, they walked out of their classroom and into history 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France. Could Nicolas Sarkozy's legal woes scupper his presidential ambitions? 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z It’s a spartan yet homey facility, with no medical technology in sight and none of the institutional, orderly aura of most other nursing homes, even other homes run by nuns. Mother Teresa’s nuns still quietly serve the poor at D.C. convent 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z Inside, the amenities are just right—not over the top and certainly not spartan. Take a Look Inside a House Meant for Mars Athletes are housed in 31 identical 17-story buildings, in spartan, no-frills apartments of two, four or six bedrooms — each with two simple, hard beds, a tiny nightstand, an oscillating fan and a mirror. The decision for the village people: Should they stay or should they go? 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Northwest, completely off-the-grid, rigorously engaged in spartan pursuit of physical and intellectual excellence, with an emphasis on egalitarian discourse and collective problem solving. A Full Heart and an Empty Nest 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Only our spartan, militaristic culture treats this as bad for the kids. Putting Your Baby to Sleep: Some Advice and Good News 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z The hardware is spartan and basic because it's not what matters anymore. Hands-on with BlackBerry's touchscreen phone 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z They also want their small, spartan government to round up and deport 11 million undocumented immigrants, quickly and on the cheap, but “in a very humane way, a very nice way.” What Republicans really want is a nanny state 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z But the cleric, it was emphasised, occupies only a single, spartan bedroom in one of the buildings. Turkey crisis: Cleric Gulen condemns post-coup 'witch-hunt' - BBC News 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z RFR executives estimated that it cost about 20 percent more to maintain the seemingly spartan Seagram Building than it would a typical office tower of roughly the same size and age. At the Seagram Building, the Past Is Still Very Present 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z “I think of it more as a gravitational pull than a choice,” he said recently in his spartan Manhattan apartment. Familiar Pianist at Caramoor, and Beethoven’s Gravitational Pull 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z It's impossible to miss the striking transparency of its front and spartan minimalism of its interior. Mini’s transparent concept car is all about ride sharing 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Thursday’s ceremony, which was held in a spartan convention space, was to be followed by a more elaborate public event on Friday. Prayer Service for Muhammad Ali Draws Thousands to Hometown Arena 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z His men endure spartan conditions and monotonous routines, punctuated by sporadic bouts of combat. As fighting surges again in Ukraine, an environmental disaster looms 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z That is pretty spartan compared with many of the high-stakes prom plans unfolding elsewhere. Dial Down the Stress of Prom 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z If anything, you could make a case this spartan approach magnifies them. Inventor's Spotlight at the PGA Merchandise Show is an ally of dreams, risk, and harsh reality - Golf Digest 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z A recent description in New York Magazine of its spartan condition offended the building owner, who protested to me, “It’s this beautiful raw space!” Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Electric guitars only get touched gently, even when they’re being touched in a hurry, like over the motorik putter of “Ful Stop,” or the spartan click-clack of “Identikit.” Even Radiohead sounds bored by its perpetual distress on ‘A Moon Shaped Pool’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z The adventure doesn’t rush to be more than a series of cutscenes interrupted by spartan controllable sequences where the player learns how to walk on the game’s invisible path of progress. Uncharted 4 is the best (and possibly last) game of its kind 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z While his prison cell was spartan, Mr. Bae said he was far better off than North Korean felons. Kenneth Bae, Longest-Held U.S. Prisoner of North Korea, Reveals Details of Ordeal 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z Murad, wearing a jersey of the Spanish football club Real Madrid, sat with his mother on the floor of a spartan trailer in al-Qadiya camp, twiddling his thumbs and resisting answering questions. Scarred Yazidi boys escape Islamic State combat training 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z In the dim light from a spartan naked bulb, I could actually see roaches and spiders crawling over the mass. Renting hell in New York City: how my hoarder landlady ruined my life 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z After lighting it and inhaling deeply, she held forth on various topics before welcoming guests to her spartan set. Coca Crystal, Avatar of Counterculture, Dies at 68 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z But opportunities to feed are greater in areas that are more densely populated than the relatively spartan invasiones. Disease: Poverty and pathogens : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Built as a spartan military encampment, KAF became a city of tens of thousands, with paved roads and a state-of-the-art trauma hospital, as well as a Burger King and a T.G.I. The Man Who Made Millions off the Afghan War 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z Dark wood furniture, a sepia-toned wall map of the region in the conference area and a spartan dining table where General Stilwell entertained make it easy to envision what went on in the modest rooms. China Maintains Respect, and a Museum, for a U.S. General 2016-02-23T05:00:00Z Presenting furry coats, lace and knitted dresses and folklore-like frocks in black, nude, pink and lilac, Turkish designer Bora Aksu said he took inspiration from a Russian duchess living a spartan life. London kicks off fashion shows amid catwalk shake-up 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z I remember a spartan day room in a care home in Wittenberg, in former East Germany, 10 years ago - and a 90-year-old woman singing the saddest of songs about her friends getting old and dying. Making money out of the migrant crisis - BBC News 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z The living quarters in the three-story brick building that houses the volunteers are spartan – there are 48 twin beds and a handful of air mattresses. Camp Cruz: Volunteers set aside lives in other states to help candidate's Iowa push 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z On Sunday, dozens of meatpacking workers and their families gathered in a spartan banquet hall in this central Iowa town to discuss ongoing union negotiations with their employer, JBS Swift and Co. Iowa’s Latino voters mobilize for caucus as 2016 candidates vie for their support 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z Air force families live in small homes here, while researchers stay at the spartan lodging operated by the Chilean Antarctic Institute, sleeping in bunk beds not unlike those found on an aircraft carrier. Antarctic Life: No Dogs, Few Vegetables and ‘a Little Intense’ in the Winter 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z From there, a new path will be built leading visitors to the spartan site that intrigued the Apple Inc guru. In new habit, Japan's Buddhist temples seek slice of foreign tourism boom 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z Soviet space gear is so much more spartan, yet more toylike and beautiful. Soviet dreams: the tough, toylike beauty of Russian space relics 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z From his spartan office in the medieval center of Florence, the German-born lawyer has brought dozens of lawsuits in Italy against the German government for World War II-era abuses. After Years of Limbo, Lawyer Battling for Nazi Victims Wins Break in Italy’s Courts 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Down the hall from his spartan office in the department of neuropathology at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow is a room filled with freezers containing hundreds of brain samples collected over decades. How a Boy’s Concussion Death Changed British Sports 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z In short, video games in 2015 were exuberant, despairing, spectacular and spartan, but always close to the edge of new territory. The best video games of 2015: ‘Bloodborne,’ ‘Splatoon’ and ‘The Witcher 3’ helped make dreams come true 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Coleman was held in a Chicago police lockup on the city’s Far South Side, where he is shown on surveillance video resting in a small cell with spartan furnishings. New Chicago Police Video Prompts Rebuke From Mayor Rahm Emanuel 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The two would sip beers in their spartan motel room, enjoying each other’s company. Man has mystery solved in search for long-lost son 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z And the restored service wing, a white-tiled network connecting a kitchen, pantry, scullery, spartan bedrooms, butler’s room and bells, is another of the house’s great fascinations. Inside a Revamped Edwardian Mansion on Scotland’s West Coast 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Like most people in Dolakha district — the epicenter of Nepal’s devastating April 25 earthquake — Ramkaji lives in a spartan temporary shelter. Nepal's Fuel Crisis May Turn Deadly as Freezing Winter Looms 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z After flying to France last month from Jordan, the Abomosas were sent to a spartan transit center full of other refugees. Some Syrians chart pre-approved path to European asylum, finding a new life _ and new hardship 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z The interior of the MAV will be spartan to minimize weight. How Will We Get Off Mars? 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z Many of the players, accustomed to the spartan travel arrangements typical of MLS in that era, couldn’t believe their luck when they looked at their plane tickets to Madrid. When the MLS all-stars played Real Madrid: 'We got set up for failure' 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z He said Bergdahl had no disciplinary record in Afghanistan, where his unit rotated between a base and the remote, spartan hilltop post where he disappeared near the Pakistan border. Defense in Bowe Bergdahl Army desertion hearing suggests he was mentally ill 2015-09-17T04:00:00Z His habits were frequently compared unflatteringly to the spartan comportment of the new Pope. Can Pope Francis Really Change the Church? 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z At first, residents reside in rooms not unlike college dorms — cramped and spartan, with whiteboards and posted rules. Essay: My brother’s out of prison. Now, his escape from addiction begins 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z And “While the Tesla outsells most conventional luxury sedans, its spartan interior comes up short on decadence.” Consumer Reports Spends Its Juice, Badly 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z “If we ceased production, the losses would be crushing,” Mr. Miao said, as he chain-smoked in the company’s quiet, spartan office. Zombie Factories Stalk the Sputtering Chinese Economy 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z All three will stick to Sony's tried and true design language, which is a spartan and squarish combination of metal rails and glass. Sony's Xperia Z5 smartphones will include a fingerprint sensor on the side 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z To adapt to this rather spartan diet, giant pandas have evolved a low metabolism. Why giant panda cubs are so incredibly tiny 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z If the locker room is spartan, it is more than a coincidence. A Basketball Life, Shown From a High School Locker Room 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z If it’s necessary to say the car’s interior is spartan, say it. Consumer Reports Spends Its Juice, Badly 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z Upstairs, the guestrooms are spartan, a throwback to when those carpeted corridors housed the living quarters for the brothers. Near bustling Harvard Square, monks provide silent sanctuary 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z You are alone with your thoughts and your books in a spartan room with a porch looking out over the Pacific. A Letter to Millennials: Give Yourself the Gift of Stillness 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Once again, I found myself in a spartan single. Katy Perry Isn't the Only One Who Wants to Live in a Convent 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z In the spartan room, there are a simple desk, a bed, a sink and a waist-high wall behind which lies the notorious shower. $1 Million Price Tag Hinted at in El Chapo’s Escape 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z That is not to underestimate the challenges of the sailing: spartan conditions, physical exhaustion and living on board at an often-extreme angle in a class of yachts that are sturdy but heel very easily. Two Friends, One Unlikely Trek 2015-05-17T04:00:00Z The training is brutal, the rockets are dangerous, the spacecraft are cramped, the living conditions are spartan, and as for the one thing you think you’d enjoy the most—the weightlessness? What Sarah Brightman's Scrubbed Mission Says About Space Tourism 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z A Japanese film crew recently visited him to do a piece about his spartan existence, which he described as “normal.” ‘Hermit of the Jungle’ Guards a Brazilian Ghost City Rich in History 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z The representative from Mankato rises each day at about 6 a.m. in his spartan Kellogg Square apartment. Freshman Mankato representative adapts to legislative life 2015-04-11T04:00:00Z Dylan Cafe, in the heart of the city, is a popular hangout with spartan yet clean rooms. Trip Tips: Dunes, ruins and cafes in India's sandy Jaisalmer 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z She comes across as no-nonsense and practical, as if her name is spelled A-n-n-e but pronounced “sen-si-ble” — and so we were surprised to discover that this otherwise spartan gown has massive wizard sleeves. The Fug Girls on a Century of Royal Weddings 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z In a large, spartan meeting room I asked a group of 15 and 16-year-olds, school parliament members, what local issues a candidate should care about. Two schools worlds apart in Lancashire 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Its website is a spartan, static page with exactly one hyperlink, which directs visitors to the Twitter feeds of its portfolio companies. The Benchmark Way: Five Partners Who Make Other VC Firms Look Outgunned And Overstaffed 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Jabulani Mbele, 64, is one black farmer who is making the transition from spartan subsistence to marketing cash crops, assisted by commercial agriculture. New farmers take root in South Africa's old tribal lands 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z The basement social hall is serviceable but spartan. TriBeCa Synagogue’s Memorable Building and Stubborn Architect 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The room was spartan but clean, with a large bathroom and shower area. A rare look inside a Saudi prison that showers terrorists with perks 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Despite the spartan aesthetic, the app still adopts Android's style where appropriate, so it looks right at home on the new platform. Minimalist text editor iA Writer launches on Android 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z When I first saw Bloodborne, I thought it looked a little silly, what with the hammer/longsword combinations, outlandish monsters, and relatively spartan environments. Could Bloodborne Be The Anti- "Order: 1886?" 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z As Fatehpur Beri was swallowed by the expanding city, its spartan strongmen continued to train in the traditional way, stripping down to loincloths and wrestling in a circle of mud. Old India’s Village of Warriors Becomes Birthplace of Bouncers 2015-02-21T05:00:00Z A local supplier told The Times that the holiday might be “more spartan” this year. New York Today: The Lunar New Year, in Pictures 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Wellington Z. Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership Local Development Corporation in New York, bemoaned what he called a “more spartan” Chinese New Year this year. Trappings of Chinese New Year Left at Sea by West Coast Port Dispute 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Mayer, an engineer by training, was one of Google’s first 25 employees and rose to oversee the famously spartan look of the search giant’s products. Marissa Mayer’s Trouble in Turnaround Town 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The information comes at us steadily—there are useful facts on almost every page—but the narrative is spartanly furnished. The Blight of Bipartisanship 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z As in the original Caudalie spa, the restaurant is indulgent, not spartan. Les Etangs De Corot: Ultimate Tranquility 15 Minutes From Paris 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z Kanneh, who has no medical insurance, stays on site in a spartan room near the Ebola ward and is often on call overnight. Exhausted Sierra Leone Medics Battle Ebola in the "Red Zone" 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z More recently, we've gotten used to phones with elegant chamfered edges and expansive black panes of shatterproof glass, but the Classic isn't about smooth lines or spartan aesthetics. BlackBerry Classic review 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The demanding nature of the work that took place in the spartan huts there in the war, unknown and uncelebrated, seems peculiarly stoic and moving in comparison. 'The Imitation Game' Sparks a New Wave of Code-Breakers Francis, whose spartan living conditions are well-known, will spend Friday afternoon at the $620 million White Palace, meeting with the president and prime minister and delivering a speech to Turkish dignitaries and diplomatic corps. Pope wades into Mideast turmoil with arrival in Turkey 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z Wonky floors, spartan bedrooms and the author’s pipe, boots and spectacles await them. Keeping up appearances 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z For medical patients, the facility is more spartan. Is There An Alternative To Waiting For Care? 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The plantation’s “field slaves” lived in more spartan cabins of logs and mud near where they worked, said Montpelier’s director of archaeology, Matthew Reeves. David Rubenstein gives $10 million to Montpelier, home of James Madison My room was spartan and smelled like antibacterial soap. My night in the Texas Ebola hospital 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z We were in the ranch’s spartan barn house when Taylor recounted this. How Billionaire Oligarchs Are Becoming Their Own Political Parties 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z He met his wife at Oberlin, and they have two children; Frieden keeps no family photos in his office, which is a spartan space dominated by a large TV screen. CDC director’s challenge: Deadly Ebola virus and outbreak of criticism Some might even say that the spartan nature of the case and handset do not do the overall theme of the watch justice. Peace & Enlightenment Through Watches: American Kobold's Nepalese Thangka Art Timepiece With Romio Shrestha 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z In reality, the refugees’ lives are not so simple — emergency quarters are spartan, and jobs are not guaranteed — but the cautious words reflect a feeling that not all is well for ordinary Russians. Ukraine’s refugees in Russia are there to stay, in new twist for separatist conflict His spartan lifestyle, literary bent, obsessive-compulsive habits and fatherly efforts to help a feckless co-worker pass the security guard exam, all paint him as an unusual guy. Family Filmgoer reviews ‘The Boxtrolls’ and ‘The Equalizer’ In that time, what had been spartan office space at 1 Liberty Plaza was transformed by victims’ relatives into a shrine reserved only for them. Family Room for Relatives of 9/11 Victims Is Recreated in Albany 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z When you enter into Louis van Gaal’s office, the first thing you notice is how spartan the decor is. Football transfer rumours: Alex Song leaving Barça for Liverpool? 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The captives are men and women, teenagers and toddlers, expectant mothers and frail grandparents being held in spartan conditions in jails, apartments, mosques and airplane hangars in militant-run towns across the north. Iraq's Yazidis worry about relatives seized by Islamic State 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Today, sitting at the kitchen counter of his spartan apartment in Torrance, Schwindt says he is happy and healthy, though his life was dramatically altered. For a pitcher struck in the head, a comebacker was a life-changer 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Conditions in the camps are spartan, with one man, Khodr Hussein, saying: "We went from hunger in Sinjar to hunger in this camp." EU ministers to discuss arming Kurds 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Mackenzie would wear black polo shirts, the unofficial uniform of leftist British intellectuals, to meetings at Demos’s spartan offices, said Bunting, a Guardian columnist whom Mackenzie appointed director of the think tank. BHP’s Andrew Mackenzie brings leftist past to bear in defense of global coal industry Scott, the marketing manager, pushed for creation of the STX line, a spartan truck intended for craftsmen who won’t miss the lack of chrome flourishes. A good sign for the economy: Pickups are selling We've seen A View From the Bridge played as spartan Greek tragedy and The Crucible as a visceral study of a racked community. A Streetcar Named Desire review – Powerful insight into incomplete people 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The climb to the spartan resort, which often features in the Tour, is rated off the scale by the Tour organization for difficulty, as was the day’s other major ascent, the Col du Tourmalet. Tour de France 2014: Vincenzo Nibali Displays Dominance in Final Mountain Stage 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z I don't need my phone to be clever, or spartan. Amazon Fire Phone review 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z The young people will be housed at an Oracle juvenile detention facility run by Rite of Passage, a Nevada non-profit, in a spartan camp built years ago to house troubled boys. Wingnuts’ anti-child disgrace: From Murrieta to Oracle, America’s worst at it again 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z “They didn’t even let us speak,” said Karla, who is now staying at a spartan facility in San Pedro Sula, the coastal city which is receiving floods of migrants deported from Mexico. ‘Flee or die’: violence drives Central America’s child migrants to US border 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z A hundred or so people, probably all of us either Ghanaian immigrants or Caucasian journalists, had jammed ourselves into this spartan dining room to watch the U.S.A-Ghana World Cup match. Watching the U.S. World Cup Win in a Ghanaian Neighborhood in the Bronx The interior of the cab is brutally spartan. EXCHANGE: Unique components makes novel hot rod 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z “Life without these may seem spartan,” he writes in the pamphlet, “but it doesn’t compare to being old and poor, which is where you’re headed if you can’t save.” Strategies: A Path to Retirement, for Those Far From It 2014-05-03T16:29:37Z Sikhism is a monotheistic South Asian religion, founded in the 15th century, which combines spartan self-control with meditative spiritualism. Young Sikhs in Maryland fight bias with diplomacy in the classroom 2014-04-19T01:02:44Z Step inside Sequoia’s spartan offices at Silicon Valley’s capital of capital, Sand Hill Road, and see what happens when a handful of hungry perfectionists like Leone band together. Inside Sequoia Capital: Silicon Valley's Innovation Factory 2014-03-26T10:00:00Z Nandini Mehta, his close friend and his editor at Penguin, which published his books “Khushwantnama: The Lessons of My Life” and “Sunset Club,” described him as a spartan, puritanical, disciplined, agnostic, fearless and generous man. India Ink: A Farewell to Khushwant Singh, as Well as a Celebration 2014-03-21T12:32:44Z The room designated for the staff, called the “electronic reading room,” was a spartan office with tables and computers set against the walls and a large conference table in the middle. Behind Clash Between C.I.A. and Congress, a Secret Report on Interrogations 2014-03-08T04:08:53Z Entire families cram into small bedrooms, and about 20 or so young men sleep on bunk beds in spartan dormitories. Generations on, Christians fleeing Syria return to Turkish homeland 2014-02-28T07:14:00Z They were entering a place of almost spartan simplicity: a dimly lit chamber with a brick wall and folding chairs, and no food or alcohol served. | East Village: In the Church of Difficult Music 2014-02-14T20:35:18Z The statue of a seated Mao went on display in Shenzhen, a commercial city in southern China better known for its raucous nightlife than its spartan revolutionary spirit. Sinosphere Blog: Mao’s Birth Commemorated in Gold and Gem-Encrusted Statue 2013-12-13T12:26:40Z In prison they endured lonely, spartan conditions, filled with great uncertainty, Mr. Dujmovic wrote. Sinosphere Blog: C.I.A. Honors Former Officers Held Captive for Decades in China 2013-12-11T09:10:29Z In spartan classrooms, they describe what they want for their future. Tackling Uganda's lack of school places 2013-12-11T00:16:36Z But backers say most people would still want to work if they could, either to earn a standard of living above the spartan one guaranteed by the government, or to fulfill themselves, or both. What a Higher Minimum Wage Does for Workers and the Economy 2013-11-27T11:00:38Z The supreme leader's acolytes praise his spartan lifestyle, and point to his modest wardrobe and a threadbare carpet in his Tehran home. Special Report: Khamenei controls vast financial empire built on property seizures 2013-11-11T10:11:23Z By digging 35 meters below the spartan surface, they might just find the key to unlocking such an existence, a shiny, soft, and lustrous metal: gold. Money Can't Grow on Trees, But Gold Can 2013-10-23T14:28:00Z If it was spartan, it also seemed salutary. Off campus and out of state, Washington State looks locked in 2013-08-12T04:19:31Z And in Belgium, even private hospitals are more spartan. For Medical Tourists, Simple Math 2013-08-03T16:45:57Z Two large, spartan rooms in the north Delhi juvenile facility houses juveniles who have been convicted. India Ink: Life in India’s Juvenile Homes 2013-08-01T14:43:24Z "We have to follow the rules set by the international contest," he said while sitting in a spartan office on the outskirts of Reykjavik. Miss Iceland Gets a Chilly Reception 2013-07-27T03:37:50Z But in interviews, former students, parents and staff members — many of them, like Mr. Chomakhidze, not part of a lawsuit against World Wide — described them as spartan places. Students Recall a School Run Like a Prison 2013-07-24T00:56:25Z Families are very much welcome at the spartan launch site in Kazakhstan, although there is little room to allow even a few moments of privacy. The Female Factor: Parenting From Earth's Orbit 2013-07-02T16:53:40Z Simpler than Camping List Pro and graphically more spartan, it may suit your tastes. App Smart: Smartphone Tools for the Connected Camper 2013-06-19T19:45:01Z But this vast, spartan backdrop made him look superimposed and somehow detached from reality. Nintendo Fans Told To Wait Months For New Mario And Zelda Games 2013-06-11T17:44:58Z The mostly vegetarian menu is also tailored with detoxing in mind, but it’s not overly spartan; campers still get treats like vegan s’mores. Summer Camp For Grown-Ups 2013-06-03T15:30:10Z Even though the free food and foosball tables at Google are different from what Mr. Walden called the “spartan” offices in Congress, Ms. Molinari, he said, “can make an impression in both places.” Susan Molinari Adds to Google’s Political Firepower 2013-06-03T00:27:11Z For four years as a teenager, Girardi was a dishwasher with a spartan work ethic at Kimono’s. Bruins’ Daniel Paille and Rangers’ Dan Girardi Divide Their Hometown 2013-05-23T00:42:06Z Goldfinch is spartan but appears safe and clean. The cost of no sweatshops: South Africa struggles not to be Bangladesh 2013-05-16T06:34:44Z A few decks above are the crew's spartan living conditions. HMS Caroline: History in grey steel 2013-05-08T23:00:22Z The 508 is smart, stylish and sophisticated; the old one was simple, spartan and agricultural. Peugeot 508 RXH car review 2013-03-24T10:30:01Z Obviously there are games like Journey in which emotion is conveyed through the music and through spartan visual storytelling. Of Pixels And Men: David Cage Wants To Cross The Uncanny Valley With The PS4 2013-02-25T18:36:20Z He also spoke about prisons saying they should be "spartan but humane." Grayling defends child smacking 2013-02-03T08:44:30Z On Saturday, Mr. Mohan strode into his spartan government office tucked away inside a courthouse in north New Delhi. India Ink: In Delhi Gang Rape Case, a Seasoned Prosecutor 2013-01-21T04:47:49Z He kept the atmosphere spartan, splashing out only on heavy-duty clothing and boots — the “Paine lab uniform”. The Man Whose Dynasty Changed Ecology 2013-01-16T18:15:00.270Z House leaders first offered a spartan $17 billion bill and then a $33.7 billion amendment that was written by New Jersey and New York Republicans. House Passes $50.7 Billion Emergency-Aid Bill to Hurricane Victims 2013-01-16T01:15:13Z For one thing, despite being rather spartan, its story is at once tragic and moving. The Top 5 First-Person Shooters Of 2012 2013-01-14T23:38:33Z "There are some brigades that loot from the people, and they are fundamentally bad seeds," he said, chain-smoking in a green army sweater as he sat at his desk in a spartan office. Insight: Aleppo misery eats at Syrian rebel support 2013-01-08T19:13:24Z As the Sunday Times follows suit, you can feel the spartan diets of the last year turning flabby again. Leveson could find a draconian solution to press regulation in Ireland 2012-10-13T23:01:12Z |
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