Word: lusterless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, has sole control-quite evenly. Henriette may have been frank in her displeasure with Georges, but he can dish it out too. Looking at the lady on her deathbed, he writes, "You haven't aged in my eyes. You've always had that thin face, that lusterless complexion, those lips that widen now and then...
...glass image of a carrot and stick superimposed upon a square Crimson H. The office itself is a brown study of spartan furnshings and dusky bookishness. The start Harvard armchairs, the large and brooding rug, the huge oak-slab desk spattered with papers, the shelves of volumes bound in lusterless red--all bear the bloodless mark of a collection that has had to depend for its light on a tiny ration of western sun that filters past the Institute of Politics and through the great window. Finally, there is the long and severe form of Mr. Fisher himself, the broker...
...moderately well-off businessman, he entered the Greek military academy in 1940, shortly before his country was attacked by Italy. During World War II, loannidis served with an anti-German (and antiCommunist) resistance unit. After the war, he was assigned to a succession of low-profile and lusterless army jobs...
Since last spring's lusterless performance at MIT Sha Na Na has undergone some serious renovation. Realizing that performance and image were going down the drain with its new-found success, Sha Na Na has rejuvenated...
Patton. A two-faced script and a lusterless cast-except for George C. Scott, who delivered a five-star performance as Old Blood and Guts...