Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give nothing but an extended quotation from the text. The book introduces itself. But the immediate geographic vibration arises from the photographs interspersed--black and white pictures of Des Moines, Iowa; flat images of a ghost-town desolation, aching vistas of an earthiness that turned out drab and vacuous...
...moment, he was following pure old-style Perón tactics: disarm the opposition before tackling it frontally. This he began to do last week in a meeting held in Buenos Aires' drab Nino Restaurant, where he and his second wife Evita had courted nearly 30 years ago. By sheer force of the Perón magic, 28 political parties-almost the entire spectrum of Argentine political life-were brought together in the same room. Though they would have been at each other's throats only a few weeks before, they listened attentively to his proposal that they...
Canton airport was like a deserted movie set, the cavernous terminal silent and still and lit only in the section where we got out of our 13-car motorcade. We were ushered through to the waiting Antonov-24 Turboprop on the apron. Two rather sullen stewardesses in creased olive-drab army-style uniforms helped us put our heavy typewriters on the shelves above the seats (contrary to international regulations), handed round candy before takeoff, then retreated to the rear of the 48-seat aircraft. A barely intelligible English-language announcement warned that "all passengers should register inflammables, corrosives, explosives...
Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance. We can be free. We can learn...
Most of the hour is a tired exhumation of the past-mostly Julie's-but don't expect songs from The Boy Friend, My Fair Lady, Camelot and Mary Poppins to sound as good as new. The dialogue is drab. "You know something, Julie, I've missed you," says Robert Goulet, her co-star in Camelot. It is hard to believe that this is the same sweet-and-sour Andrews of The Americanization of Emily, her best picture-when all you see is Lawrence Welk with nicer legs...