THE debate has already begun over whether the austere, no-tax-increase budget plan offered by Gov. M. Jodi Rell last week, which calls for cutting at least 400 state jobs and relies on help from the proposed federal stimulus package, can offset Connecticut's rising deficits.
Too many of them — roughly 40 percent, according to a 2000 study I conducted with the Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society and that still holds today — were and are practically useless, with austere designs, no amenities and little or no direct sunlight.
The audition room is austere, with no windows and just two chairs.
It might be thought that, in these austere times, no idea could be more politically toxic: literally, a policy of the state handing over something for nothing.
While the west side of Glacier is a rain forest, the east is in a rain shadow, dry and windy and more austere, though no less amazing in its beauty.
Farther downhill is the Igreja de São Francisco, in which someone appears to have detonated an explosion of carved and gilt Baroque ornament inside a decidedly more austere — but no less impressive — 14th-century Gothic church.
The document, unveiled Tuesday by Finance Minister Joe Oliver, is an austere and no-frills spending campaign that keeps spending roughly frozen while still hiking budgets for law enforcement, intelligence, and defence and highlights the most important part of the budget: the budget is balanced!
A self described "priest" of cinema who lives an austere life of no drinking, vegetarianism and no family around to distract him, Naderi has made Monte, his latest work of wonder, which premiered Out of Competition in Venice.
It's a fairly austere place with no on-site office and no phone number listed online.
No angst, no austere modernism, no need to challenge the ears.
