Word: drabs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Leonato, Ben Vilhauer labors under some of the most difficult verse in the play. He makes the most of a drab and demanding part. Leonato's daughter, Hero (Janine Poreba), who keeps a low profile throughout the play, blossoms in the wedding scene. Her maidenly blush and swoon are entirely convincing. The audience can detect a difference in her after her trauma: the demure lass has aged into a deeper, more mature character...
Cotonou, Benin, is a city already transformed by democratic elections and new freedoms, despite the country's continuing poverty. The formerly drab and relatively lifeless streets bustled with activity during our visit. President Nicephore Soglo, who won a free election last year, is struggling to reform the nation's economy by privatizing industry, promoting free trade and rebuilding the agricultural system...
With the advent of the 1992 Olympics and the ensuing waves of athletes, delegates, and other official paparazzi, Barcelona--or its electronic image, at least--is now at the focal point of world concern. The city that El Caudillo--Francisco Franco--kept drab and grey until he (finally) died has been entirely re-tailored for the critical electronic eye. Word has it, in fact, that the Barcelonese spent close to $10 billion on their nothing-but-enormous urban renovation program...
...marries a veterinarian, moves to Iowa and still manages to do her show every week from a local TV station. That is known as having it all. JULIE, a new ABC sitcom, doesn't have much of anything except Julie Andrews, who puts a little sparkle into the drab material. Her dedicated husband (James Farentino) tends to ailing heifers and brings home an injured dog to share their bed. His two kids at first resent their stepmother (sure, who wants a TV star for a mom anyway?) but are won over by her sunny, motivational lectures. Andrews' husband, Blake Edwards...
...fluorescent gloom pervades the courtroom for Criminal Business of the Third District Court of east Middlesex Country. The ceiling lights have the grayish-white color of dirty institutional bed linen, and colors are sapped, dulled in this civil service twilight. The chalkboard looks olive drab, the cheap wall veneer blends into the dusty browns of the portraits. Even the well-tanned private lawyers look wan and pasty...